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When i was new to Linux all i wanted was GUI versions of every CLI. I even dreamed of writing something that would turn man pages into GUIs

Static site generator for man pages? Sounds like a fun “just because” thing to do actually.

We can call it groff, and invoke it via "groff -mandoc -Thtml"

The output of such a program might look something like this I think: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/groff.1.html

This renders the manpage as HTML - I read the original suggestion as creating a GUI for the tool itself, from manpages.

xman ;)

That's a manpages browser. Not a GUI for the tool itself.

I.e turn the manpages for curl into a GUI for curl.

oh, I completely missed that :facepalm: