[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 22.02.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I personally do not find the info keys incomprehensible, but I > spent some time learning how to use info, and in a number of cases > info is my preferred documentation format. There's no logic behind those key bindings. Of course you can learn them by heart, but I must say emacs key bindings are the most illogical ones I've ever come across - they are why I refuse to use emacs. *Nobody* should need to put up with stuff like that. I can, and do, use info. And I hate it. Oh, and the search system - well, all I can say is that it seems *far* easier to find things in man pages. Maybe there are some obscure options in there to do all the stuff I routinely do in man. Don't you think it's a contradiction for help systems needing obscure key bindings? > Take perl for example. Comes as a bunch of man pages. How I > wish they has chosen info instead -- It takes several frustating > efforts to get information about anything at all. Perldoc is of > little help, and we do not have perlindex available for Debian. Well, if something is in there, I can always find it. OTOH, there have been times when I _knew_ I had seen something before in info, but was unable to locate it again. True, man is far from perfect. But IMO, info is far worse. MfG Kai
