Some man pages are difficult to reach due to too many hits.
Submitted by Peter Jochum
Link to original bug (#335277)
Description
I discovered yelp recently and I like the way it formats man pages. It makes them more convenient to read (and search). The full text search is pretty helpful, but displaying the man page of "ls" using the search. It generates too many hits to be useful. On could go through the hyperlinks to find the correct man page. But new users might have their troubles going through |Command-Line Help| -> |Manuals OR Info-Pages| -> then either
Basics
Development
Disk Management
Editors
Emacs
GNU admin
General Commands
Information:
Libraries
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous:
Network Applications
TeX
Texinfo documentation system
Video CD Tools
or in the man pages
Anwendungen (Applications)
Entwicklung (Development)
Hardware-Geräte (Hardware-Devices)
Konfigurationsdateien (Config files)
Spiele (Games)
Systemverwaltung (System Administration)
Übersichten (Overviews)
and after semi-guessing(most of the time it is clear) the right category of the program you want help doing a Ctrl+f for the program name in the list.
My suggestion is that if the term entered into the search window corresponds to a existing program which has a manual/man-page/info-page the topmost results are these pages.
It is very important to have help available in a quick, well formatted, easy to read (maybe also consider firefox's ctrl+'+'|'-' zooming shortcuts for the short sighted beautiful people without glasses and the vision impaired) and easy printable way.
Version: 2.14.x