Peter Schaffter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Eric's Web-centric, fully-
> hypertexted documentation is the ideal, methinks, but not at the
> cost of losing the ability to type "man <whatever>" at the command
> line.
Agreed. This is why I pushed a patch into man last year that teaches
it to do the right thing when sees HTML where it's expecting a man
page. In theory, every man page on a Unix running current man(1)
could be converted in place to HTML tomorrow, and -- other than the
fact that presentation suddenly started coming through their browser
:-) -- users wouldn't notice the difference. man foo would still
work.
That's what I want to do to info, too. My vision is that all the
legacy help browsers become ways to point your browser at subtrees of
the HTML on your system. /usr/share/man and /usr/share/info would be
the most important HTML subtrees, but there could be others, including
project-specific others.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
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