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Tips-N'-Tricks: homebrew.man.conf for Terminal.app

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Add instructions for fixing Terminal.app's "Open man Page" command by creating homebrew.man.conf.
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- [homebrew-mode](https://github.com/dunn/homebrew-mode) provides syntax highlighting for inline patches as well as a number of helper functions for editing formula files. - [homebrew-mode](https://github.com/dunn/homebrew-mode) provides syntax highlighting for inline patches as well as a number of helper functions for editing formula files.
- [pcmpl-homebrew](https://github.com/hiddenlotus/pcmpl-homebrew) provides completion for emacs shell-mode and eshell-mode. - [pcmpl-homebrew](https://github.com/hiddenlotus/pcmpl-homebrew) provides completion for emacs shell-mode and eshell-mode.
## Terminal.app: Enable the "Open man Page" contextual menu item
In the macOS Terminal, you can right-click on a command name (like `ls` or `tar`) and pop open its manpage in a new window by selecting "Open man Page".
Terminal needs an extra hint on where to find manpages installed by Homebrew because it doesn't load normal dotfiles like `~/.bash_profile` or `~/.zshrc`.
```console
$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/man.d
$ sudo nano /usr/local/etc/man.d/homebrew.man.conf
```
Add the following to the new file `homebrew.man.conf`:
```
### Homebrew
MANPATH /opt/homebrew/share/man
```