17 Sep
2019
17 Sep
'19
6:16 a.m.
On Tuesday, 17 September 2019 at 7:42:28 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Clem Cole wrote:
Maybe I've missed something, but I'm in the intermediate camp. Emacs
is in my fingertips, and I wouldn't want to live without it, but I'd
far rather see info go away. In some ways it anticipated HTML, but I
find navigation particularly painful.
Fair enough, but be careful, while I admit I have
not looked in a while,
info(gnu) relies on emacs keybindings and a number of very
emacs'ish things. Every time I have tried to deal with it, I have
unprogram my fingers and reset them to emacs.
Yep, which is why I like "info" as much as I like EMACS i.e. not at
all. What exactly is wrong with the manpage format?
It's linear.
It tells you everything you need to know, and tells
you where to
find further information.
Yes, but you need to follow the link manually. Theoretically a good
HTML document would be better, but it's nice to have a linear form
that you can search.
For an extreme case of man pages, look at something like mplayer(1) or
mpv(1):
$ man mplayer|wc -l
9435
$ man mpv|wc -l
13939
That doesn't make them easy to read.
Greg
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