On 2024-11-27 at 11:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 10:40:44AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-11-27 at 09:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>> And yes, it's a pity there is no common frontend for both. > [help and man] >> There's also 'info foo', which for some values of foo will be more >> helpful than either of the above, for others will provide exactly >> the same information through a different interface, and for others >> will provide no information at all. > > The nice thing about info is that it /actually/ falls back to the > man page when no info page is available. So it is a common front-end > of sorts for both. ...huh. So it does, apparently. Even at this point I still live and learn. I always thought it was just that a few particular packages had had their man pages blindly converted to info format so the packager could ship documentation in both formats. To be honest, I think I'd kind of rather that it didn't do that... but it's not like it's hard to recognize the converted-from-man-page presentation and quit the viewer, when it does happen. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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