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Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages
- From: Scott A Crosby <crosby at qwes dot math dot cmu dot edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 00:36:48 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: Linux Glibc <glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu>, Kamil Iskra <kamil at dwd dot interkom dot pl>, Alex Buell <alex dot buell at tahallah dot demon dot co dot uk>, egcs at cygnus dot com
> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
>
> # I don't care. If the text console version of the info program didn't suck
> # so badly, I might be thinking better thoughts about info files, but I
> # don't, so RMS can go suck his left nut for dreaming up such a horrid user
> # interface. (And yes, I know there are alternatives like tkinfo but
> # they're x-based)
>
Huh? If I want to read info files from the console or a tty, I just cat
'em together and pipe to less. In x-windows, I use xemacs.
The nicest thing about info files is that they are essentially straight
text, which means they are emminently viewable in any one of the many
editors that UNIX has. HTML doesn't have this advantage, nor that nice
regex search facilities I enjoy using. Just another advantage of
non-binary human-readable files.
Scott