On 20 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 10:02:43AM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > > > 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. > > The key for me is to use Ctrl-S for a full-text search. > > > Man pages are much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might > > help. > > Yeah. I get the impression it's easier for people who use emacs, but I > have religious objections to that. :) > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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