Is it possible to open man help file in gedit with a command?

Question

it's hard to read ubuntu help, I hope I can read help in gedit editor. is it possible to do the following ? man ls and open in gedit .

Answer 1

You could use this function to get something similar:

man () { yelp "man:$@"; }

then man ls will open the man page in the help viewer.

gnome-help, which provides help in Gnome applications, is symlinked to yelp. The function above acts in place of the man program and calls yelp using the man: URI with the name of the command you provide as the argument. If you type yelp man:ls it will do the same thing as that function does if you provide "ls" as its argument.

Answer 2

One possibility:

file=$(mktemp) && man ls > $file && gedit $file

This means 1) create a temporary file and assign its name to the variable "file", 2) dump the contents of "man ls" into it, and 3) open it in gedit.

It could also be done with the gedit external tools plugin, but the above is probably as easy as anything.