Re: man or info?
On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 07:59:09PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Bob writes:
> > Are we talking about the same documentation format?
>
> I wonder that myself whenever I see someone bashing info.
Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with info-the-format
(converted to HTML it sure looks nice), but info-the-program needs a
lot of work to be useful.
My three biggest gripes with it are:
- There doesn't seem to be any way to scroll line-by-line or two lines
at a time (like lynx with Insert/Delete)
- There doesn't seem to be any way to search on regexps
- When a page has a footnote, info feels a need to put it in a window
that fills half the screen, which you can't get rid of (as far as I
know).
Maybe these things are answered in the documentation, but 'info info'
gives documentation on another program, 'man info' only lists the
command line options, and /usr/share/doc/info doesn't contain anything
useful. When info starts, it tells me that I can press Ctrl-h for help,
but that just crashes the program.
When I see people who claim to like info, I really do wonder whether
they're talking about the same program.
Peter De Wachter
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