18 Nov
2018
18 Nov
'18
5:38 a.m.
Hi Jim,
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 From somewhere that didn't fit in well with Unix.
Its saving grace is piping info(1) made it just dump all the text,
skipping its UI, e.g. `info gcc | less'. Because it used to print
formatting progress to stderr!?, it used to need less's `G' then `g' to
skip to the end, getting all the formatting work out of the way, and
then back to the start to redraw the screen, dumping the stderr.
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Cheers, Ralph.
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