You want to read a wikipedia page right from your terminal, right? RIGHT?
I know because I wanted it.
downwards
is downloading the article you want, converts it to mdoc
and
displays it using your local man
binary.
$ downwards OpenBSD
$ downwards 'Theo de Raadt'
$ downwards 'Python (Programming Langauge)'
$ downwards --help
Usage: downwards [OPTIONS] ARTICLE
downwards lets you read a wikipedia page on command line as a manpage.
Options:
-l, --language TEXT Language for wikipedia
-s, --stdout Print to stdout
--help Show this message and exit.
I found it very helpful to set export MANWIDTH=80
for nicely readable
documents.
Installation
pip3 install downwards
Development
pip3 install --upgrade .
I wanted to play around with OpenBSDs mandoc
and learn how mdoc
works.
Then I played around with Wikipedia and put both things together.
However, once I got a first prototype up and running, I started liking it. It feels like a "reader"-feature from your browser, but only from your terminal right at hand.
There are always some things in automatically generated mdoc documents that
throw warnings. Since you cannot make man
ignoring them, I need to press
ctrl+l
to reset those warnings.
man
is really not made to display a wide range of special utf8 characters
(neither on OpenBSD, Linux nor macOS). I've done what I can to strip those
away or replace german umlauts with ae
for example.