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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
- Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- From: David Ross <davidr at toadtech dot com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 09:10:42 -0400
- Cc: alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk, kamil at dwd dot interkom dot pl, law at cygnus dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
On Thu, 17 Sep 1998 07:26:06 -0400 Alex Buell wrote:
>
> On 17 Sep 1998, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
> > |> I don't care. If the text console version of the info program didn't suck
> > |> so badly
> >
> > Have you actually tried any recent version of the info program?
>
> Yes, I did. It would keep doing weird things like jump to a completely
> different page from the one I wanted to see no matter what I did, so gave
> up and texi2ps'd them into postscript docs and read them via ghostview.
Yuk!
That doesn't sound like the info program, but the links in the *.info files. Of
course that assumes incorrect but consistent results.
I use info files daily. Occassionally, I have a bad link mostly in the index
menus. I am a GUI/mouse junkie using Emacs --with-x as an IDE.
I just has a thought (excuse me while make a record of it in my diary....back),
have you checked your key bindings? There have been times when I have found the
defaults changed accross releases and the documentation hadn't caught up.
Regards,
David Ross
davidr@toadtech.com
Toad Technologies
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