[TUHS] man-page style

Michael Parson mparson at bl.org
Sun Nov 18 00:49:14 AEST 2018



On 2018-11-16 14:56, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 11/16/18 3:52 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Toby Thain wrote:
>> 
>>> GNU understood the difference, and wrote separate manuals (e.g. `info
>>> bash`, `info bison`, etc).
>> 
>> 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...
> 
> If you don't use emacs, you won't like it.

I don't like gnu info, but when I do need to read those docs, I use 
pinfo instead, which is more like using lynx to read basic hypertext 
docs.

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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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