Man Page Editor

Man Page Editor is an open source graphical application written in GTK+ and designed to allow users to easily edit documentation files of installed applications, also known as man-pages.

Being designed as a replacement for the excellent, yet unmaintained ManEdit application, the Man Page Editor software brings highly anticipated features, such as Import System Manpage entry in the File menu, support for non-English man pages, New From Template entry in the File menu, Use underline option in Preferences, import man-page support, Preview entry in the File menu, and support for subsections.

What is new in this release:

• Set window title to file path of current file.
• Fixed numerous bugs when opening/saving/closing system manpages.
• No longer clears current manpage if new open/import etc cancelled.
• Better support for importing BSD/generated manpages ( like tar,sftp etc ).
• Fixed segfault when trying to open non editor archive ( .mpz ) file from command line.

What is new in version 0.0.13:

• Removed annoying flashing caused by building/destroying spell check dialog.
• Fixed 'Spell Check Document' in tab popup.
• Fixed spelling in template file.
• Code clean.

What is new in version 0.0.6:

• Fixed MAJOR memory leak.
• Added gpl-3 licence to docs and about box.
• Fixed bug when 'Category' not set in properties.
• Export manpage now automatically sets the name of the manpage to the lowercased name in properties and creates it in the same dir as the opened file and appends the category number.
• Added 'Export As' to save exported man page to different file/folder.
• Fixed 'Close'.
• Fixed 'New'.

Requirements:

• GTK+