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For personal use I want to edit some man pages in my system, including adding some notes and removing many unneeded lines.

So my question is how to establish that?

Back to my question What is the default PAGER used by man pages? I've learnt how to change the default man PAGER.

For example I'm gonna use gedit. This could be done by 

man -P gedit some-man-page

and then I do edits and then save as new file then by help of How to create a manpage? I could create a new man page of that command.

But, this would put me in problem of presence of two man pages of same command.

So, in other words what is the best application (GUI is preferred) to edit man pages

UPDATE:

I found that I could make the edit using the gmanedit. to install use :

sudo apt-get install gmanedit

But the question is how to make this modification persistent after a package update/upgrade. I'e How to disable updating man page even I update/upgrade the package itself.

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  • You can use any application you wish, gedit or Gmanedit. You will have to run it as root. Be warned, it is likely your edits will be over written when you upgrade a packages. Probably better to save your edited man pages in /usr/local – Panther May 15 '15 at 14:46
  • In gedit I can't save it even I'm running as root Else it offers an option save as so I can't save to the same file itself. – Maythux May 15 '15 at 14:49
  • @Maythux If the file is readonly, some applications will not allow root to write to it. You have to set it to writable, and then write to it; some editors will automatically do this for you. Vim does it, but it has a learning curve. – jpaugh Aug 31 '16 at 00:28
  • You're essentially asking two questions here. May want to clean that up. – jpaugh Aug 31 '16 at 00:30

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