Re: man v. info

[Dimitri Maziuk <dmaziuk@yola.bmrb.wisc.edu>]

* Imre Vida (Imre.Vida@anat.uni-freiburg.de) spake thusly:
> hi,
> 
> i just read the (sub)thread above on man v. info
> and i thought it is much more important than 
> to have it hidden in there.  So i thought i try 
> to pick it up again.
> 
> The major sources of help/information for me are
> the apropos, the -h/--help options and the man pages.
> These are fast and efficient means to find what i want
> most of the time.
> 
> As far as info is concerned, i fully agree with Karsten.  
> It doesn't work intuitively for me either; i just get 
> lost in the maze of links and 3 sentence pages....
> I hate it for this.
> 
> The lack of manpages, and outdated manpages are frustrating.  
> And what Karsten brought up is also a nice idea:
> to have examples in man pages. There are some manpages with examples 
> but most of them are without although they are really helpful.

<mode="my $.02"> On IRIX, for one example, many man pages 
do have EXAMPLES section; they had it for ages.

Writing a decent manpage is obviously way too hard. Let's
invent a maze of twisty little hyperlinks, all alike,
instead, and call it "info".</mode>

Dima
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