MenuText = Linux man pages
Command = C:\cygwin\bin\man.exe
Parameters = -a $SelWord
Initial folder =


The -a option tells man.exe to read every matching man page. Use the "q" command in the pager to quit the current man page and go to the next matching man page (if there is one).

If you want to know which man pages man.exe actually is opening, use man.exe with the -w option as in the following command.
man.exe -w -a $SelWord

The -d option can be used to do some debugging.


This TextPad (or SciTE) tool assumes that Cygwin is installed. Cygwin does not have a very complete set of man pages, so it is a good idea to add a collection of man pages to Cygwin. To download a set of man pages, see the following ftp site:
    ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages/
Remember to edit the C:\cygwin\usr\share\misc\man.conf file and add the directory of the new man pages to the MANPATH (see the man(1) manual page and also the man.conf(5) man page).

If you do not want to edit the man.conf file, you can try a command like the following

C:\cygwin\bin\man.exe -a -M "/cygdrive/c/Linux-man-pages/man-pages-2.07" $SelWord

where the man pages are in the folder C:\Linux-man-pages\man-pages-2.07. The disadvantage of doing the command this way is that this command will only find man pages in the given folder, it will not look for man pages in any of Cygwin's other man page folders.