Info sucks?
John Goerzen wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 1998 at 05:18:18PM +0200, Anthony C. Zboralski wrote:
> > >
> > > hey is there an easy way to print info manuals? for manuals like
> > > libg++ i am not going to print everypages manually; maybe i am stupid
> > > and there is an easier way to do this but when i need to print a
> > > texinfo manual, i have to grab the package source, run configure and
> > > make dvi.
> >
> > This is one reason why info sucks.
>
> One of many. I can get a nice printed copy of a manpage with man -t
> bash | lpr, for instance. One can't search through the entire info
> pages, either. I just don't like them one bit.
The texi source makes beautiful output.
Emacs' info or standalone info find search through the entire pages.
Info is a *great* way to document programming languages and their commands,
because then you can use Emacs for command completion and online-help on
the command being edited. Great for learning a new language. Use it for
Perl all the time.
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