At 12:36 PM -0500 11/12/06, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Sunday 12 November 2006 12:24, Tony Nelson wrote: >>At 2:54 PM +1030 11/12/06, Tim wrote: >>>On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 08:38 -0700, David G. Miller wrote: >>>> The only problem with info based documentation is info. >>> >>>Yes, I could go along with that. Probably even worse than lynx. >>> >>>> Try pinfo instead. Much nicer UI. >>> >>>Tried that before, about the only difference I could see was >>>colourisation of the output. It was still a bastard to navigate >>>through. >> >>"Me too!". I'd like to see some substantive description of the benefits >> of using pinfo, to find out if they outweigh the horrible illegibility >> of pinfo's display. Probably all I'll get is more of "Pinfo's display >> is perfectly legible. What's wrong with you?" >> >>The essential info commands are pressing spacebar or page down to go >> down, pressing page up to go up, pressing return when the insertion >> point is in a link to go elsewhere, pressing l (ell) to go back, and >> pressing q to quit. -- > >I don't know about the spacebar, but page-up-down do nothing here. Does it work in a terminal window to scroll through your command history? (Actually Page Up goes to the top and Page Down goes to the bottom.) Shift-Page Up and Shift-Page Down should scroll the window. (In info, Shift isn't necessary.) If not, then you have something misconfigured. I have a similar issue when telnetting (ssh'ing) into a server, which I haven't solved, so I can't be much help. >I have >managed to get around but its best described as huntin pecker or some >such, and doesn't bode well for following the chain of thought at all. > >It seems to me there info/pinfo authors could have built a manpage >describing howto use info/pinfo. But there is not such installed on this >new FC6 install. > >Thanks for the hints, I've printed them for refresher reading. You're welcome. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
