Why I hate "info"

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 11/13/06, 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
>
> Let the flames begin.  I'll just hide behind this firewall with my flame
> retarding underwear on.  :)
>
>
>
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For those wo can, use info from Konqueror via the kio_slave. For
example, to see the parted info just enter 'info:/parted/Top' sans
quotes into Konqueror...works like a charm.

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