On Thursday 20 June 2002 10:02 am, W. Paul Mills wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson) writes: > > To summarize somewhat, perhaps unfairly, the GNU Project seems to > > believe that providing a complete detailed manual is always > > preferable to providing a reference card; the Debian Project > > observes that not all upstream authors have the time or inclination > > for a complete manual and, all other things being equal, prefers to > > have some reasonable documentation for most things than excellent > > documentation for a few and poor documentation for most. > > > > 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. Man pages are > much easier. Then again a friendlier info browser might help. > > Paul
Info isn't intuitive enough to be of practical value. You can't quickly sit down, search for what you need, and then go on. You have to memorize a bunch of key strokes that are easily forgotten. I only use info if I'm desperate. Glen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
