Re: Next #d-women forum; topics anyone?
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 03:20:38AM +0100, Dabian - TMPEMAIL valid 2004dec28 + 8 days wrote:
> Some argue that info has a bad interface, but I like the structure of
> info-nodes quite a bit, and I am used to the info-interface in
> GNU/Emacs. I know there are several other interfaces, and I'm sure we
> can create a new interface, if someone has an idea and a need for one,
> however if I understand it correctly, most agree that the centralised
> structure of info is nice. Personally I wonder if a "lynx-like"
> command-line info program was made, or simply a web-interface, would help?
sounds a bit like pinfo:
gregoa@colleen:~$ apt-cache show pinfo
Package: pinfo
Priority: optional
Section: doc
Installed-Size: 312
Maintainer: Christian Kurz <shorty@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.6.8-3
Provides: info-browser
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1)
Suggests: lynx, mutt
Filename: pool/main/p/pinfo/pinfo_0.6.8-3_i386.deb
Size: 82848
MD5sum: ced34846c26233b1ff14fcc34adab1f6
Description: An alternative info-file viewer
pinfo is an viewer for Info documents, which is based on ncurses.
The key-commands are in the style of lynx.
Origin: debian
Bugs: debbugs://bugs.debian.org
gregor
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