Function: browse-url-man

browse-url-man is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in browse-url.el.gz.

Signature

(browse-url-man URL &optional NEW-WINDOW)

Documentation

Open a man page.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/net/browse-url.el.gz
(defun browse-url-man (url &optional _new-window)
  "Open a man page."
  (interactive (browse-url-interactive-arg "Man page URL: "))
  (require 'man)
  (setq url (replace-regexp-in-string "\\`man:" "" url))
  (cond
   ((executable-find manual-program) (man url))
   (t (woman (replace-regexp-in-string "([[:alnum:]]+)" "" url)))))