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Linux: Opens up a man page of selected word in Scite.

Note: This is now built into scite, or I didn't notice it before. Just highlight a keyword and press F1. Example: highlight the keyword, "printf" in your C program and press F1. A man page will appear in the output pane.

However, if you would rather...

Load the man page as a colorful document in a new tab

This add-on also offers a bit more functionality. It will search several sections of the man pages: The option -S 3:3p:2:2p:4:5:6:7:8:0p:1:1p tells us to search the programmer's manual sections first. These could be numbered differently on your platform. Update: Now uses c-style syntax highlighting.

Insert the function somewhere in Scite's startup scripts.

Example custom startup script. .SciTEUser.properties should have a line like:

 ext.lua.startup.script=$(SciteUserHome)/.SciTE/startup.lua 

 -- Compatibility: Lua-5.1 function man_select(sel) sel=string.gsub(sel, '[<> ,*()\n\t]','') local ext = props['FileExt'] -- open lua manual on selected word if(ext=="lua") then -- todo: customize help for each file type os.execute("gnome-terminal -e 'lynx \"file:///usr/share/doc/lua-5.1.4/manual.html#pdf-"..sel.."\"'") else -- open c manual on selected word local tmpfile="/tmp/man_"..sel..".c" local cmd="man "..sel..">/dev/null&&man -S 3:3p:2:2p:4:5:6:7:8:0p:1:1p "..sel.."|col -b > "..tmpfile if Execute then Execute(cmd) else os.execute(cmd) end if(io.open(tmpfile)) then scite.Open(tmpfile) os.remove(tmpfile) end end end 

and in .SciTEUser.properties

 command.name.11.*=Programmer's Manual (selected text) command.11.*=man_select $(CurrentWord) command.shortcut.11.*=Ctrl+Shift+M command.subsystem.11.*=3 command.name.15.*=DevHelp (selected text) command.15.*=devhelp --search $(CurrentWord) & command.shortcut.15.*=Ctrl+Shift+G command.subsystem.15.*=1 

That last command is optional, but DevHelp? is a handy reference, provided that additional DevHelp? docs are installed.