On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:41:54AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Many man pages end with:
The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info >
and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info XYZ
should give you access to the complete manual.
I have problems with that.
1. I don't want to install unneeded packages just to find out whether or
not the package might be useful.
2. The info output has an annoying format. A browser acceptable format
{plain text fine -- HTML *NOT* needed} is MUCH more functional.
see
https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html
The coreutils manpages have switched to saying something like
Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ls invocation'
You could file a wishlist for other projects to do something similar.
I think most (all?) of the GNU docs are available as above, and I don't
know many projects that use info and aren't GNU.
Mike Stone
