iMan

About iMan

iMan is a graphical viewing application for UNIX man pages (textual documentation files). iMan provides a Mac OS X native Aqua interface as an alternative to use of the man program via the Terminal.

A variety of useful features have been implemented in iMan, including:

Pleasant Aqua user interface with multiple viewing windows.
View man pages as well as any man-format file on disk (great for previewing).
Support for UTF-8 encoded pages.
Supports apropos and whatis database searches, as well as in-page search with regular expressions.
Browser-style history (forward and back within any window).
User-customizable font styles.
Handles links to man pages in several forms (man:groff(1), man://groff/1, and man://1/groff are all supported). If you have iMan installed, click here to go to the man(1) man page.
Reusable framework core can be embedded in other applications to provide man page handling functionality.

iMan is written in the Objective-C language using Apple's Cocoa frameworks. It currently runs only on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and up. The BSD subsystem must be installed. iMan is made available under the BSD License, giving you broad freedom to use and modify the application and its source code.

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iMan Viewing Window

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The current release of iMan is 0.4. This release features updates and polish to the user interface, numerous bugfixes, and substantial improvements to the underlying engine. This release fixes all known bugs and will be the last release before the 0.5 series, which will incorporate a new browser interface for locating pages on disk.

You can download iMan v0.4 here. See release notes for this version.

Source Code

iMan source code is currently available from the project's Mercurial repository on BitBucket.

Donate

You may, if you wish, donate any small sum to the project. Donations are appreciated but not expected: iMan is free software in every sense.

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