Read documentation from the comfort of Emacs

You probably know what we are referring to when mentioning man-pages? If not: man-pages, or manual pages, are documentation you can read directly in your command line using the man command. Most shell commands (e.g, curl, grep etc.) are documented, as well as close to all C header files. In general, you could document almost everything with it, but in my experience it works best with commands and code. I covered man briefly in my command line beginners guide article a few years ago. "What does ...

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