Why I hate "info"
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Sun Nov 12 20:21:27 UTC 2006
On 12Nov2006 14:39, AragonX <aragonx at dcsnow.com> 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 at zip.com.au> 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
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