On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:13:47 -0500 Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote:
> where some nice formatting is done in the GUI Emacs version. The > stand alone GNU info browser is rather obtuse. I found a much better > option to be the independent pinfo (Debian package of the same name) > browser which provides navigation up and down through the document > using Lynx style key bindings. If pinfo doesn't find an info document > it will open a man page when one is available. I'll just second that, haven't had GNU info installed on any system in the last 15 years. Never grew comfortable with it, it's about twice the size of pinfo, with the latter being rather idiosyncratic in its own ways and a little buggy. Surely it never was supposed to do more than fill this gap, and as far as I know this is all there is, if you don't feel like using a clunky Tk GUI. Well actually, vim can do it too, a simple plugin is included in Debian's vim-scripts package already, but as I recollect you'd still need default info, that's what made me go for pinfo once. To be honest I'm not happy with the info format still being around, precisely because sometimes man pages don't cut it, and we should have something better by now. On the other hand, and I'll make no bones about it, so called chatbots turned out to be extremely useful (overused) for me in that respect and are now doing enough of the job for about 80% of the time. You just can't beat that for speed or convenience, and when is there no internet connection. Regards, Oliver
