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Re: Working for Debian is not just about packages



On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 06:51:49AM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 02, 1999 at 01:06:27PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > no, it means exactly what it says it means - that it does not work
> > similarly to standard tools. 
> 
> Info works like Emacs.  Is Emacs not a standard tool?  Less does not
> work like ed, which is the standard editor!  Does this make less suck?

Even emacs fans have said `info sucks' on this list in the past.

I read info files using zgrep and zless myself. Only way to make them
bearable. info is extremely non-intuitive.


Hamish
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