On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, AragonX wrote:
<quote who="Timothy Murphy">
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Am I alone in thinking that the info program
encourages bad documentation?
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I'm not sure if it does or not but I find it difficult to navigate info.
I'm a man page nut but once it refers me to the info documentation, I'm in
trouble. Perhaps I just haven't taken enough time to learn info but man
seems to work well enough... All the fancy navigation just confuses my
old brain. It's kinda like emacs vs vi to me. I'm just a simple vi man.
Emacs has a lot of fancy features but I just want to get the job done.
Down with info! Man forever!!! LOL
+99
Having said that, pinfo is slightly easier to use and understand than info.
IMO there are very few bigger pieces of garbage out there than info pages.
The only reason I use them at all is, because I am forced to endure the pain
of them, if I want ANY documentation for programs that insist on using them.
IMO, The person who invented them should be shot!!
Regards,
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