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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 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.

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

function man_select(sel)
	sel=string.gsub(sel, '[<> ,*()\n\t]','')
	local tmpfile="/tmp/man_"..sel
	local cmd="man "..sel..">/dev/null&&man -S 3:3p:2:2p:4:5:6:7:8:0p:1:1p "..sel.."|col -bx > "..tmpfile
	if Execute then
		Execute(cmd)
	else
		os.execute(cmd)
	end
	if(io.open(tmpfile)) then
		scite.Open(tmpfile)
		os.remove(tmpfile)
	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