Closed Bug 217212 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Wanted: man-/info-page browser (man:/info: URL handler)

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

x86
Linux
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

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VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: toralf, Assigned: bugzilla)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Another quite useful feature of Galeon (that keeps me from switching to
thunderbird) is the ability to browse system documentation via special URLs;
when entering man:<topic>[.<section>] it will essentially execute

man [<section.] <topic> | man2html

and display the resulting HTML code. info:<topic> produces similar results, but
info2html is executed instead.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:





Might perhaps be implemented as an Extension.
And "ghelp:" (= GNOME help files) may perhaps be supported, too.

The effect may be simulated via Bookmark keywords, but that will require a
server providing a man or info page to HTML gateway, which won't always be
available.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Since Firebird is not a platform-specific browser like Galeon or K-Meleon,
platform-specific functionality is considered unnecessary bloat (with the
exception of UI functionality).

-> WONTFIX
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
*** Bug 296179 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Do you know if someone is working on a Firefox extension to read the man / info
pages ?
Yeah, maybe an extension would be nice - but I don't know of such a project...

I've also been thinking that this kind of thing might be implemented through
some kind of url-to-command filter. What I have in mind is a mechanism that
would allow me to say to Firefox "whenever you encounter an URL of the form
<someprotocol>:<path>, please run <somecommand> <path> and display its standard
output in the browser window."

Maybe we should add a separate feature request for that.
See bug 296208...
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