Why I hate "info"

[David G. Miller]

"AragonX" <aragonx at dcsnow.com> wrote:

> 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 Let 
> the flames begin. I'll just hide behind this firewall with my flame 
> retarding underwear on. :) 
pinfo: It doesn't improve on the content but it at least makes 
navigation easier.

I can't remember whether it was on HP-UX or SunOS but I once needed to 
find out how to use uuencode/uudecode on a file.  This was back in the 
day before mime types and people would uuencode a binary before sending 
it and just slurp it into their mail message.  The man page provided all 
sorts of wonderful detail on how the program worked and not a smidgen of 
help on how to use it.

Cheers,
Dave

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