On Tue, 9 Nov 2021, Robert Elz wrote:
And in addition to man, provide a small tool which takes an arbitrary name and makes its encoded form, so if you need to edit a man page with an arbitrary name, you just do vi $( man_filename my-exotic-name ) and you're done - no need to ever type anything encoded. Should this become popular enough, an option to ls could decode the encoded forms upon request.
$ echo "str" | vis -h should do the job here, I think :). And vis(3)/unvis(3) also exist. -RVP