[TUHS] earliest Unix roff

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Tue Sep 17 07:42:28 AEST 2019


On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Clem Cole wrote:

> 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 tells you everything 
you need to know, and tells you where to find further information.

-- Dave


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