Opening some sections in man(command) pages

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Hi
How to view some section on man page that has underline in text?
For example, in "man at" I want to see this section:

SYNOPSIS
at [-V] [-q queue] [-f file] [-mMlv] timespec...

or

The definition of the time specification can be found in /usr/share/doc/at/timespec.

How to open /usr/share/doc/at/timespec. or queue or timespec ? Is it possible?
 
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I don't think it's possible to do that in man, man allows you to navigate and search through the man page that you have loaded. But you can't select underlined text in them to jump to another page.

But you can use the :e command to go to a different page.
So with man already running and displaying a page, you could do this:
:e /usr/share/doc/at/timespec
And that should allow you to view the timespec page!

If you run man and press h, you can see help for all of the functionality you have available to you. And of course there is the 'man man' command which will bring up man's own man page! :)
 

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