On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:09:52PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> well at least I would argue that navigating with `less' through the >> man output is superior to `lynx' for the same purpose > > In what way? That is, what actual capabilities and behaviors are you > basing that evaluation on?
I've been quiet through this, but I agree with Joerg, I do not like lynx(1) as a text reader, nor am I looking for hyperlinks in my man pages. For grins, I just fired up links(1) on a text file, it's a touch better than lynx, but not quite. I still much prefer to read text with less(1) as it more closely matches how I do things with all other programs. I'm a one-big-xterm kind of guy, inside of which I run screen(1). For the most part, the reason I run X (or a graphical environment at all) is so I can get larger xterms. So, with screen, vi, and less, I have a fairly consistent way of moving around my blocks of text, slight variations here and there, but for the most part, it feels pretty consistent to me. Another thing, It is quite rare that I would be reading the man page on the console of the box that I've got my display from. As a systems administrator, quite a bit of my man page reading is done on some remote box, over an ssh session, very possibly not even the same OS as the box that is providing my display, said host might not even know I've got a graphical ability, or have a browser installed, even one as simple as lynx. When I run man(1), I want formatted ascii paged with less, I could even do without the bold text. =) -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
