Display a Manual

From Coder Merlin
Within these castle walls be forged Mavens of Computer Science ...
— Merlin, The Coder

Display a Manual[edit]

Finally, let's try out one more very helpful command. If we want to learn more about a command we can read its manual. We do this with the command man. As an example, look at the man page for the emacs command. Type man emacs.

john-williams@codermerlin:~/Merlin$  man emacs

The screen will be filled with information about the emacs command. While a man page is displayed we can use the following keys to navigate:

  • Typing f will move us forward one page in the manual
  • Typing b will move us backward one page in the manual
  • Typing q will quit (exit the manual)

Exit the manual now.