Out of a man page and back to bash prompt

[Emil Payne]

Thomas Olsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 September 2009 15:41:26 Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Emil Payne wrote:
>>> johnherron wrote:
>>>> Derek Broughton <derek <at> pointerstop.ca> writes:
>>>>> Alvin wrote:
>>>>>> To add a Kubuntu tip: as an alternative, you can use konqueror to view
>>>>>> man pages, using the man kioslave: 'man'
>>>>>> Type for example 'man:adduser' in the address bar.
>>>>> or the shortcut: #
>>>>>
>>>>> #adduser
>>> I just tried that in Firefox.  It first said I needed to associate an
>>> application to the man: and then suggested gnome-help.  That works
>>> wonderfully.  Now it pops open a separate window with the entire
>>> man-page.  BTW - I tend to leave firefox open all the time so it's handy.
>> Nobody told you you could do it in Firefox, did they? :-)
>>
>> I'm a bit surprised it worked, but it's worth knowing.
>>
> 
> Here on FF 3.5 it says: "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, 
> because the protocol (man) isn't associated with any program." But it works 
> beautifully in Konqueror and the ALT-F2 KRunner.
> 

Nope, nobody told me.  I'm running FF 3.5 (Shiretoko) under Mint 7.  It 
was probably FF that popped open the window asking me what to associate 
man: with.

Emil