17 Sep
2019
17 Sep
'19
3:59 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 02:54:49PM -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote:
Larry McVoy writes:
We are 100% on the same page. My complaint about wikis is it is impossible
to find anything without a search engine. I like tables of contents and
indices.
My comment on the info stuff was just my understand of why it came to be.
I think, someone correct me if I'm wrong, the info stuff was designed
to handle larger, more complex stuff, with a table of contents, etc.
Something like perl could fit in one info doc but the perl man page is
not a thing, it's just a series of pointers to more man pages.
Can't answer you directly on this one, but I prefer the old system of
having man pages and separate documents for longer things. I still
have old notebooks full of papers on lex, yacc, and so on.
One of the problems with using info for something like perl is that it
doesn't have a useful organization.