简单的试用心得如下:

安装pman

使用传说中的pear来安装pman

sudo pear install doc.php.net/pman

如果pear版本比较老，需要先升级pear才可以继续

sudo pear upgrade pear

pman使用方法

pman的使用方法很傻瓜，比如我们想查看strlen的帮助信息:

pman strlen

帮助文本的内容是彩色的，能和chm版本的php帮助文档媲美。pman的详细使用帮助如下

#pman --help

man, version 1.6c

usage: man [-adfhktwW] [section] [-M path] [-P pager] [-S list]

[-m system] [-p string] name ...

a : find all matching entries

c : do not use cat file

d : print gobs of debugging information

D : as for -d, but also display the pages

f : same as whatis(1)

h : print this help message

k : same as apropos(1)

K : search for a string in all pages

t : use troff to format pages for printing

w : print location of man page(s) that would be displayed

(if no name given: print directories that would be searched)

W : as for -w, but display filenames only

C file : use `file' as configuration file

M path : set search path for manual pages to `path'

P pager : use program `pager' to display pages

S list : colon separated section list

m system : search for alternate system's man pages

p string : string tells which preprocessors to run

e - [n]eqn(1) p - pic(1) t - tbl(1)

g - grap(1) r - refer(1) v - vgrind(1)

还有一个好处是在vim里查看php帮助信息更方便了，结合完美

:!pman strlen