pinfo
Pinfo is a hypertext info file viewer with a user interface similar to lynx. It is based on curses/ncurses, and can handle info pages as well as man pages. It also features regexp searching and user-defined colors/keys.
| Tags | Utilities Text Processing Documentation |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 16 Mar 2006 13:13
Changes: Updated and added translations. Nodes containing a "." are now correctly found. Non-ASCII man pages are displayed correctly. The history behavior of the search input line has been improved. Broken tag tables are now automatically fixed. This release will not segfault when a broken regexp is entered. It fixes a number of segfaults and heap corruptions, a lot of path searching issues, text display on narrow terminals, highlighting of searches, and some memory leaks. It has better cooperation between ncurses and readline.
- 15 Oct 2004 21:46
Changes: New node detection algorithms for man and info files were provided. The search prompt now has a default item. A couple of minor bugfixes were made.
- 11 May 2003 16:27
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 04 Jun 2002 16:04
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 25 Mar 2002 08:30
Changes: Some major bugs were fixed. A feature for switching between man sections was added.
- All comments
Recent commentsAt last info documentation finally makes sense :)
Problem with bold text on man pages
This looks like a great utility; It's a definite
alternative to GNU info, but I'm having
trouble with the man functionality:
boldface text looks like this:
^[[1mNAME^[[0m
It's like it's not interpreting the ANSI escape
codes; I'm using the framebuffer console; not sure
if that matters. Also, the color looks fine on
hyperlinks and info pages.
It is also excellent to view manpages.
In GoboLinux, we added a wrapper function so that man
redirects to 'pinfo -m'. Yes, it's *that* good.
Pinfo was one of the main inspirations for me to write
htop (http://freshmeat.net/projects/htop/),
which attempts to be for top what pinfo is to info (an
improved, more interactive, replacement).
thank you thank you thank you
BTW, thank you. emacs/info blows. I couldn't agree more with all the previous coments. This is the first comment I've ever made on freshmeat. That's how happy this utility made me.
Re: Request
> Very, very nice program. I definitely
> recomend it to everybody. The only
> feature I cannot seem to get is
> copy/paste in X11
Ok I figured it out. Turns out you have to press Shift-key while selecting with mouse