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For people on OS X I recommend checking out Bwana https://www.bruji.com/bwana/ ,it's not the same thing, it's man pages in your browser but in combination with Alfred (or similar) and/or a terminal plugin it's great. I find it much faster to skim man pages with bwana.

Main issue is of course that this shows man pages for OS X, which is usually similar but not identical to the ones on your favourite distro.

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If you like bwana, you could try my updated copy: https://bitbucket.org/tom_seddon/bwana (I've put a compiled version in the releases page - if it doesn't work, you can hopefully build it yourself)

Main improvement: man pages generated with this version include more links. Any time it spots a word that's bold, or underlined, or whatever it is - I don't remember what it was exactly - rather than just printing it that way it tries to turn it into a link to the man page by that name, if there is one.

I like that, thanks!

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