> In fairness to info, you have to consider its history. The want was > to be able to present an online edition of some large documents (the > emacs documentation), with cross-references, search capabilities, > index lookups, etc. This was long before the web was even a glimmer > in anyone's eye. In that regard, it was a spectacular success. Being > able to jump around a 400+page document in real time on a VT100 > plugged into a Sun 3/50 workstation is a testament to that.
i take this as another strike against info. the fact that one sees that the editor's docs are 400+ pages, and there's no easy way to cut that down to a man page, and yet they proceeded to build bloatware to accomidate bloatware. it's like instead of taking a bath, you buy a monster air filter, so no one will notice the stench. - erik
