3 fma \- fast manual access
6 .RI [ section ] " manualpage"
8 This manual page documents briefly the
12 \fBfma\fP is a script which allows fast and efficient access to manual pages
13 through using compression via lzop and display of vim.
15 fma generates manpages via running 'man <requested_manpage>' and storing
16 the result in a file with the extension txt in directory $HOME/man. Then
17 lzop is executed for the file and the output is written to a file with the
18 additional extension lzo. Afterwards the editor vim is executed with
19 filetype set to man and using on-the-fly decompressing using lzop again.
21 So far you did not win any time of course. But if you want to display the
22 same manpage again the processed manpage already exists in $HOME/man and
23 can be displayed immediately. If you want to experience the difference
24 just run 'fma zshall' two times and compare it with 'man zshall' too.
26 fma supports the following options:
29 Show summary of options.
32 Show version of program.
35 If the environment variable MANDIR is set the specified directory is taken
36 for output files instead of the default directory $HOME/man.
40 Display manpage zshall (man zshall).
43 Display manpage read of section 1 (man 1 read).
46 Display manpage read of section 2 (man 2 read).
48 fma was written by Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org> based on an idea of
49 Matthias Kopfermann <matthi@grml.org>.
51 This manual page was written by Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
52 for the grml project (but may be used by others).