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What tools are available to edit manpages, i.e. GUI WYSIWYG editors (any platform)


Is there any decent GUI(Graphical User Interface) WYSIWYG(What You See is What You Get) editor (on any platform) that can be used for authoring/editing manpages? An app that can export to the troff format would also be fine.


Solution

  • There is an online editor for man pages in mdoc format: http://roperzh.github.io/grapse/

    Mdoc is a semantic markup for man pages. It has been around for about two decades and supported by Linux and other Unix-like OSes. You should prefer mdoc to troff.