16 Nov
2018
16 Nov
'18
10:24 p.m.
On 2018-11-16 3:59 PM, Jim Capp wrote:
Hypertext navigation, ToC, indexes. Features we expect from whole books
(the manuals) and not from reference cards.
`info` and `man` solve two different problems, regardless of one's
opinion of the interface to the former (which can be learned, it's no
more arcane than `vi`).
--T
GNU
"info" is one of the most non-intuitive interfaces that I've ever had
the displeasure to use. Or maybe that's just me...
I would cringe anytime I had to use "info" ... I always wondered where
it came
from and why they didn't just stick to traditional man pages.
Jim