Which manual has appendix details?

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2024, Hal Kierstead wrote:

> I often find myself looking through several manuals trying to find
> information. It would be much better if I could make a single search of
> all manuals. Maybe there is a way and I just do not know it.

Hal,

While it's a kludge, you could compile each manual to a PDF, put them in a
directory, say /LyX/manuals/, then use pdfgrep to search them:
PDFGREP(1)                            Pdfgrep Manual                            PDFGREP(1)

NAME
        pdfgrep - search PDF files for a regular expression

SYNOPSIS
        pdfgrep [OPTION...] PATTERN [FILE...]
        pdfgrep [OPTION...] [-e PATTERN | -f FILE] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION
        Search for PATTERN in each PDF FILE and print matching lines. By default, PATTERN
        is an extended regular expression.

        pdfgrep tries to be mostly compatible with GNU grep with some PDF-specific
        distinctions and additional options. Most notably, -n prints page instead of line
        numbers.

A very useful tool.

Regards,

Rich