Re: man or info?
W. Paul Mills(wpmills@Mills-USA.com) is reported to have said:
> cjwatson@debian.org (Colin Watson) writes:
>
> > To summarize somewhat, perhaps unfairly, the GNU Project seems to
> > believe that providing a complete detailed manual is always preferable
> > to providing a reference card; the Debian Project observes that not all
> > upstream authors have the time or inclination for a complete manual and,
> > all other things being equal, prefers to have some reasonable
> > documentation for most things than excellent documentation for a few and
> > poor documentation for most.
> >
> > Man pages are things that both authors and readers can pick up quickly.
> > I'm in the habit of using info for a very few GNU packages (make,
> > autoconf, and the libc being prime examples), but given the choice I
> > still prefer a quick 'man foo'.
>
> Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are
> much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help.
Have you tried pinfo?
Description: An alternative info-file viewer
pinfo is an viewer for Info documents, which is based on ncurses.
The key-commands are in the style of lynx.
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