manora(1)

💖 NAME 💖

manora — yes, bestie, this is the Manora Manual, section 1 — is a simple CLI & TUI tool for displaying, downloading, and saving man pages as PDF files. That's the whole vibe: man pages, but make them PDFs. ✨

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Run manora with no args and you get a TUI menu that lets you search through local man pages, download man pages from https://manned.org, and display them as PDF files. Iconic behavior, honestly.

Or you can be direct and pass the man page as an argument, like manora ls. If that man page can't be found locally, Manora offers to download it from https://manned.org. No cap, it just asks.

Manora opens man pages in the default PDF reader defined in XDG MIME Applications, or falls back to Zathura if no default PDF reader is set. 🫶

You can also open Manora from a keybinding. For example, bind the alacritty -e manora command to a keybind, and boom — it opens the manora TUI menu in alacritty. Main character shortcut energy. 💅

See below for the CLI options.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

manora [OPTION] [MAN_PAGE]

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

• -m, --menu — opens a TUI menu that lets you search through local man pages, download man pages from https://manned.org, and display them as PDF files. This is the default operation, so it's basically the home-screen vibe. 🏠
• -s, --save <man page> <file> — saves man page into the file PDF file. If file isn't specified, it saves to a "man_<man page>.pdf" file in the current directory. If file already exists, it asks for a confirmation to overwrite it. Politely dramatic, as it should be. 😭
• -d, --download <option> <man page> — skips searching for the man page locally and directly downloads it from https://manned.org instead. You can use this when specifying a man page to open as an argument (manora --download <man page>), or in combination with the -s / --save option (manora --download --save <man page>). Straight to the download, no local-search detour. 🚀
• -V, --version — displays version information. Slay, now you know. 💖
• -h, --help — displays the help message. Your little map, bestie. 🗺️

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

• 0 — OK. We love a clean exit. ✨
• 1 — Invalid option or unknown / missing man page. The page said "who?" 💀
• 2 — Error when opening the man page as a PDF. PDF said "not today." 😭
• 3 — Error when converting and exporting the man page as a PDF. The export did not eat. 🙈
• 4 — Error when creating the runtime directory. Directory drama. 🫠
• 5 — Error when downloading the man page from https://manned.org. The download link was giving nothing. 💔
• 6 — Error when asking confirmation to user. Even the confirmation got shy. 😳

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

man(1), groff(1), xdg-mime(1), xdg-open(1)

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🐛 BUGS 🐛

Please report bugs to the GitHub page: https://github.com/Antiz96/manora. Do it for the girlies who need their man pages as PDFs. 🫶

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Robin Candau <robincandau@mailbox.org>

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Bestie, that's the whole page. Go forth, search local man pages, download from https://manned.org, and save those PDFs. Periodt. 💅

💖 Cute sign-off from Manora 2.2.10, dated 2026-10-25 — now go read some man pages, icon. 🎀