Re: Just my opinion
*- On 6 Jul, Ed Cogburn wrote about "Re: Just my opinion"
> Ipswitch wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Brad wrote:
>>
>> > > the documentation is incomplete, out of date, or simply wrong,
>> >
>> > You have a bit of a point there. Some of the HOWTOs are rather old and
>> > inaccurate, mostly because they were written a few years ago and there've
>> > been many advances since then. Most of the manpages on the other hand are
>> > relatively up-to-date, and many of the more complicated packages even come
>> > with examples (look in /usr/doc/[packagename]).
>>
>> The GNU manpages are really bad. Most just tell you that you shouldn't use
>> them - use info instead. Yuck!
>
>
> Yes, I don't know why GNU chose to do this to the community. It
> seems everyone at GNU uses (X)emacs, since emacs reads info stuff
> but they never considered the rest of us who might prefer another
> editor that doesn't support info. The stand alone info reader
> they provide as an afterthought is truly horrible. However, there
> is a replacement (finally!) called 'pinfo'. It has not reached
> v1.0 yet, so it should still be considered 'beta', but it works
> very well for me. It is colorized, allows the use of the arrow
> keys in an intuitive way, and can show both info *and* man pages
> (it checks for an info file first, if not found it will look for a
> man page). The info-like node linking ability works on properly
> written man pages too (hilighted references to other programs
> become a link in pinfo).
>
>
There is also info2www that works very well. Install dwww and info2www
and you have a fairly basic documentation reading mechanism.
--
Brian
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