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+1  Q: 

A text version of the MySQL manual

Always open in my editor is a tab with a text version of MySQL's manual (~100k lines in a readable layout), which is extremely helpful.
The version I have is very old (when 5.0 was still in beta), and this valuable text-file does not exist in mysql.com anymore.

Is there a newer version, or some tool that can create it out of the various existing formats?

+2  A: 

On this page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/ they have documentation in several formats and languages. For example pdf, chm, html,manpages and eclipse doc format.

If you want text only you could take the "HTML Single page"-version and save it as plain text using your browser.

Nifle  2009-09-09 10:11:47
The html is unreadable as plain text. Do you know of an app that converts to text and preserves the paragraphs' layout?
 2009-09-09 20:38:33
Firefox saves the text with formatting.
Nifle  2009-09-09 20:57:06
This is very useful - thanks
slashmais  2009-09-10 20:57:46
Firefox and IE both do a lousy job saving it as a text-file. Opera, on the other hand, generates a perfectly readable result.
 2009-09-11 15:25:33

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