on Thu, Jun 20, 2002, W. Paul Mills ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes:
> Seems like I never can find what I want in info. Man pages are
> much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help.
No, scrap the whole format. DocBook w/ mandetory manpages would be a
good start.
We hashed this all out about six months ago, Dec 24 (guess who was
spending a lonely Christmas? <sniff>).
My main arguments are detailed here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg04038.html
"It's about as intuitive as...well, emacs". God I love me sometimes....
;-)
Cherry picking a few of my other contributions to that thread:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg04005.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg04096.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg04093.html
...and it looks like I was just starting to get warmed up here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg04047.html
> you can [...] quickly
...get utterly and completely lost in the Info hierarchy...?
...warmer...
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200112/msg04054.html
There is a man-like summary which can be extracted from the Info
format and turned into something remotely resembling a man page,
somewhat in the way a cat might be said to resemble a horse:
neither can operate a can opener.
Peace.
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