On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:31:35PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
It's useful to many, but I agree most don't bother with it due to the awkward non intuitive default info reader _interface_ (though pinfo is a bit better in that regard).
Right. I've heard the argument for 15 years that info docs are really good, it's just the interface. :) In all that time, a better interface hasn't really caught on, and the web happened.
Though it would be better to have direct links. Now the above full node URL is too long/awkward, so I've just now setup redirects, so the following proposed new trailers for ls --help and man pages should work: ls --help: ... Full documentation online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls> Full installed documentation: info '(coreutils) ls invocation'
A huge improvement. I suspect that this might also help the info docs show up in google, instead of being below the fold. Alternative wording:
Full documentation online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ls invocation' To make it more clear it's the same thing available different ways. Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
