Re: Some notes on the Wiki

[Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Andreas Schwab wrote:

> Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
>
> > Most people i've met can't undertand the commands for info (pinfo is
> > nicer in this regard).
>
> There exist many alternative info browsers (this includes konqueror).

Yet the amount of docs available in info is dwindling :)
And in fact, most of the ones i see on my system are mostly for the gnu 
development things (ddd, gdb, gcc, make, gmp, glibc) and emacs packages 
(viper, gnus).

> > Those who use info religiously seem to be emacs users, not "info browser"
> > users.
>
> I bet you have never used any recent version of info (the program).

Let's see. The last time i tried to use info (the program) was about 6 
weeks ago, 
when i was trying to get info about a function in glibc.
I could not for the life of me determine why it felt the need to jump 
topics when i was just trying to scroll up or down more.

I'm in the "I hate info" camp, and happily so.  I'm happy that most docs 
i want to view are either hyperlinked pdf or searchable html.

Anyhoo, this is offtopic

--Dan