On 12Nov2006 14:39, AragonX <aragonx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: | <quote who="Timothy Murphy"> | > <flame> | > Am I alone in thinking that the info program | > encourages bad documentation? | > <snip...> | > </flame> | | 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 This is why I run my own man command, and it reads and converts info into flat text and presents it in less (or whatever - $PAGER). You put the info dirs in your $MANPATH and go. Here: http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/css/#key-doc Observe: [/home/cameron]zoob*> man gzip 1: /usr/share/man/man1/gzip.1.gz 2: /usr/share/info/gzip.info.gz which entry? Enter '2' and it presents the gzip info file as a single pageable thing. I hate info too, along with the stupid "info to html in separate pages" converters people stick on the web. One page people, one page! Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ remember, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom wisdom is not truth truth is not beauty beauty is not love love is not music music is the best - frank zappa
