alternatives to the 'man' command

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Duncan Lithgow wrote:

> Jorge Fábregas wrote:
>
>> On Friday 21 January 2005 4:45 pm, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> sorry if i seem lazy - but isn't there an easier way to navigate the
>>> online manuals in my linux system?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you're using KDE, open Konqueror and type in the address bar:
>> man:/
>>
>>
>> HTH,
>> Jorge
>>
>>  
>>
> that's great! and if i type $ man:/top i get the manual of the 
> "top"command. Thanks.
>
> Duncan
>
Why did this functionality desappeared in Nautilus and Yelp is beyond 
me, but I surely miss having a nice broser-like GUI to navigate the man 
pages... I hope they re-add the feature to yelp and/or Nautilus (or RH 
writes their own... which I doubt).