Re: man or info?
On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:02 am, W. Paul Mills wrote:
> 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.
>
> Paul
Info isn't intuitive enough to be of practical value. You can't quickly
sit down, search for what you need, and then go on. You have to
memorize a bunch of key strokes that are easily forgotten. I only use
info if I'm desperate.
Glen
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