I don't know that I have the oomph to do it but one of the things I wanted to do in my retirement was convert all the stuff that is in debian back from info to man(7).
I *hate* info. It has made Linux less available to a lot of people. On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 02:07:58PM +1100, John Gardner wrote: > > The info stuff alienates anyone who is not an emacs fan > > I'm an Emacs fan, and I also find the Info system abhorrent and confusing. > It's a different story if you're using Emacs, because the Info system is > well-integrated and as easy to navigate as any other buffer (and most Emacs > users will have customised keybindings at that point, so browsing help > isn't weird and confusing). > > The standalone info(1) program, though? Please. I'm not going to learn a > second set of keybindings just to navigate online help. > > Let's face it: the beauty of the man page format is its straightforwardness > and simplicity. Neither of which the Info system has. > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 13:52, Larry McVoy <l...@mcvoy.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 12:21:43AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > > > > > And at this point, the man(7) language is better maintained and > > > > appears to have more of a future than texinfo, which has been a lame > > > > duck now for at least half a decade, probably longer: > > > > > > > > > > Uh, oh, no idea why you bash texinfo from time to time. > > > > I rarely post here but I'm definitely in the man page format over texinfo > > camp. Info means you have to learn emacs to navigate. Guess what? > > A lot of the world loves vi over emacs but the vi guys did not make you > > learn vi to read docs. > > > > The info stuff alienates anyone who is not an emacs fan. That's why > > people don't like info. Documentation should be inclusive, info is > > exclusive. > > > > -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
