Why I hate "info"
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Nov 12 19:56:38 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 14:47 -0500, Tom Diehl wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, AragonX wrote:
>
> > <quote who="Timothy Murphy">
> >> <flame>
> >> Am I alone in thinking that the info program
> >> encourages bad documentation?
> >> <snip...>
> >> </flame>
> >
> > I'm not sure if it does or not but I find it difficult to navigate info.
> > I'm a man page nut but once it refers me to the info documentation, I'm in
> > trouble. Perhaps I just haven't taken enough time to learn info but man
> > seems to work well enough... All the fancy navigation just confuses my
> > old brain. It's kinda like emacs vs vi to me. I'm just a simple vi man.
> > Emacs has a lot of fancy features but I just want to get the job done.
> >
> >
> > Down with info! Man forever!!! LOL
>
> +99
>
>
> Having said that, pinfo is slightly easier to use and understand than info.
>
> IMO there are very few bigger pieces of garbage out there than info pages.
>
> The only reason I use them at all is, because I am forced to endure the pain
> of them, if I want ANY documentation for programs that insist on using them.
>
> IMO, The person who invented them should be shot!!
----
not exactly big picture thinking here...
man pages and info have long roots and have been a necessary part of
documentation.
you can always open a konqueror window and use a web browser for them...
info:bash
man:smb.conf
Craig
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