On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:11:46AM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
> Simon Huggins wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:55:43AM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
> > > "info strace" is your friend.
> > *shudder*
> > info was never my friend.
> but info is your friend, you love info, you will use info
> </rms>
> I use info because it is the FSF officially endorsed "replacement" for
> ancient man pages.
RMS says "Jump", you say "How high?" huh?
I went to a talk of his at the Paris Linux Expo in February. He was
less of a nutter than I thought he was going to be - it was a very well
rehearsed talk.
But no, curse the FSF, for trying to take away concise manpages that
come in one page that you can easily search through for the one thing
that interests you instead of having to decide which category everything
is in. I can never remember make(1)'s automatic variables and which
mean which but I can remember that one of them is $* say and if I could
search for that in a one page document instead of having to choose
"Using Variables" scrolling through a lot of text to some links and
choosing "Automatic" it would make life easier.
bash(1) has a huge manual page but that doesn't stop it being useful.
pinfo is also a nice manual page viewer in that you can follow the
references to other manpages which have been made in the standard
foo(section) format which is neat. And hey it costs you nothing to at
least try it before rubbishing it.
I have been told that the interface from emacs is less evil than that
from info. But hey I've not got sucked into emacs ... yet.
And I most certainly don't believe in blinding following things like you
seem to with RMS. Get over it Jon :)
Simon.
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