16 Sep
2019
16 Sep
'19
8:57 p.m.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 10:51 AM Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
I hate texinfo and friends. I get why it is better
than man, but man was
good enough, more than good enough, and the GNU project took everything
it could find and destroyed the man pages.
Amen, bro. As I said, it was not 'social compliant' which was really a
not very nice thing to do. It's arrogant to say in effect "your way is
wrong, I'm going to try to kill it off."
If you have something like perl that needs a zillion sub pages, info
makes sense. For just a man page, info is horrible.
I'm not even sure, I like that, to be honest. I'm 'old school' enough
to
rather use a book from ORA or the like.