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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.