At 3:29 AM +0930 6/18/07, Tim wrote: >On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 08:13 -0600, David G. Miller wrote: >> Ah yes, the info/man conundrum. Man has the nice interface but the >> man page doesn't have the information. The info-text file has the >> information but info has the world's worst interface. Have mercy and >> recommend using pinfo instead of info. > >To be honest, I couldn't really see pinfo offering me anything better >(both seemed awful), other than colour highlighting of the interactive >bits (which, otherwise, you have to find by a bit of guesswork). > >You still have a painful hop, skip, and a jump, method of traversing a >document. And they don't seem to understand the concept of going >backwards means going to back to the prior screen, not the top of the >page of the prior bit you were reading. Grrr, read page, jump to >another page, go back, scroll back down the first page to where you were >up to, carry on reading and following links. ... That's not how is behaves here on FC6. Down-arrow and up-arrow move through the links. Right-arrow follows the current link. Left-arrow returns to the page linked from, scrolled as when linked from. Now that the (default) colors are not illegible I'll probably use it in preference to info. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
