On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:35:42PM EST, Micah Cowan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Jones wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:42:41PM EST, Micah Cowan wrote:
> >> The screen documentation is now available online at > >> http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/ > > > > What's the story behind this document? > > As a hobbyist, and although I was fairly familiar with the man page > > on my system, I found this so easy to navigate that I learned a > > couple of useful things while comparing it with the doc I was more > > familiar with. > > And this is why I've been praising info over man, as far as > specifically screen's documentation is concerned. :) I kinda thought of that after posting. Especially true if you use the pinfo hack. > All these versions of the manual were generated from the > "screen.texinfo"; the latest one in git (so some things in there don't > apply to the latest release; I arguably should've generated it from > 4.0.3 instead). It would probably also be nice to have the HTMLized > version of the man page up online; perhaps I'll put that up as well at > some point. > I find the index of commands from the texinfo-based docs to be > _particularly_ handy. You might want to bookmark that page: > http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/html_node/Command-Summary.html I don't really use bookmarks much .. I mark stuff .. and fugget aboutit .. but I made a (hopefully indelible) note of that particular node/page. > The main hassles with using the info manual locally are that the > keybindings feel strange to people used to man, it doesn't take as > full advantage of terminal capabilities as you might hope > (underlining, bolding, etc), and, well, basically isn't man. :) That's what I had in mind when I mentioned "pinfo" .. Does vim's hjkl finger dance out of the box. Only navigation that's wired in really matters :-) Thanks! CJ _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
