On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 07:59:09PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Bob writes: > > Are we talking about the same documentation format? > > I wonder that myself whenever I see someone bashing info.
Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with info-the-format (converted to HTML it sure looks nice), but info-the-program needs a lot of work to be useful. My three biggest gripes with it are: - There doesn't seem to be any way to scroll line-by-line or two lines at a time (like lynx with Insert/Delete) - There doesn't seem to be any way to search on regexps - When a page has a footnote, info feels a need to put it in a window that fills half the screen, which you can't get rid of (as far as I know). Maybe these things are answered in the documentation, but 'info info' gives documentation on another program, 'man info' only lists the command line options, and /usr/share/doc/info doesn't contain anything useful. When info starts, it tells me that I can press Ctrl-h for help, but that just crashes the program. When I see people who claim to like info, I really do wonder whether they're talking about the same program. Peter De Wachter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
