8 Apr
2008
8 Apr
'08
7:25 a.m.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 12:26 AM, der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
I have never found any information of any use in info. Manual pages
are wholly sufficient and the interface is pretty good. My Preferred
OS just uses nroff to dump man pages to your terminal (since by
default terminal windows are non-autoscrolling); if I need to search
for something in a big man page, I just send it to an editor (very
simple) and search there.
VMS HELP is pretty nice but I actually prefer a man page.
John
--
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Am I the only
person in the world that likes man pages then? [...]
Just give me a nice plain flat page and let me do
the searching
myself. That's what the '/' key is for.
You are not alone. I have very similar tastes in documentation. (I
agree with you about info; I find it more useful to use less on the
texinfo source, or even the underlying info file itself, than to try to
get anything useful out of info.)