On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 02:44:17AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... I'm not sure where in the thread my comments belong so I'll put them here. | So what is it that makes you (and others) react so vehemently?
I've tried to use info a few times, and it is always difficult. The keybindings are unnatural to me -- I use vim, less, and bash regularly (readline is set to "input-mode vi"). The info keys seem much more like emacs (which I've used, but rejected in favor of vim). Sometimes I've managed to use it a bit, but other times it tells me there is no link under the cursor (what, "Next" isn't a link!?). I use man a lot since I know the layout of a manpage and I can view it easily ('less'). I think that info is ok for a book-like document. I know that many GNU tools have nice HTML and PS/PDF documents available on gnu.org, and the TOC resembles what I've seen in 'info'. I also like how the reader has the choice (for HTML anyways) of one-massive-page, one-page-per-chapter, or one-page-per-section. I like the second for on-line viewer and the first for printing. If someone made decent manpages (for reference), _and_ if they made a info2vim converter then I could be happy :-). If you don't already know : vim allows for hyper-links (start with :help) that can be followed with ^] and ^T takes you back where you were before. -D -- He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God. John 8:47