mangl

This is a graphical man page viewer based on mandoc (https://mandoc.bsd.lv/).

It uses OpenGL to display man pages with clickable hyperlinks and smooth scrolling.

Features:

• links to other manpages
• stack browsing (history) with f and b commands for forwards and backwards
• colored text
• draggable scrollbar
• keyboard commands: q quit, scrolling with j, k, space, shift-space, gg, G

Building

Install prerequisites if necessary (zlib, OpenGL and FreeGLUT headers and libraries). On Debian systems run:

sudo apt install libz-dev libgl-dev freeglut3-dev

First run ./configure in mandoc folder:

cd mandoc
./configure

Then run make in root folder:

cd ..
make

If it fails check the Makefile for proper inclusion of GL libraries.

Copy and use mangl binary as you like.