Le Dim 27 janvier 2013 17:02, wes davidson a écrit : > hi morel. > > you wrote: >> Note: I did not read the info page of aptitude. >> > > i think perhaps there does not exist such a document for aptitude. if i am > wrong about this, i would be grateful to learn where it can be obtained.
Hum... maybe not info by info command in fact (I have no way to try it for now, and I'll have forgot when I'll be able, this evening ;) ). I was speaking about the integrated aptitude help page, which is using exactly same interface as info. Since it uses the same interfaces, my mind merged those informations without asking me! It should ask... :P This interface is accessible when you run aptitude in ncurse mode, then, I think you'll find your way. > when i first read a unix man page twenty years ago, i had a rather similar > reaction. it took me an embarrassingly long time to screw in the lightbulb > and do 'man man'. (perhaps i am a closet homophobe.) Man was never something hard for me. I think it is because I discovered less and immediately fall in love with that tool (I previously only known the more tool from DOS, it explains my love I think). > i am not sure which document you refer to, here. info has a manpage, > which is indeed not terribly helpful to the novice. it is, after all, a > manpage, and manpages are not intended to be helpful to novices. The common problem with man, is when things come to non CLI interface: for ncurses and X GUI, man does not sounds really efficient. > but there exists a much more extensive document in .info format (namely > info.info), geared toward the novice user, including a tutorial that i > personally found very helpful. Did not found it. Where is it? I usually try to simply run the software alone to explore it's menus and/or try common shortcuts like F1, CTRL+H, ? and alike. > unfortunately, in debian, afaik until one installs texinfo-doc-nonfree Oh, I'll check it out. Having doc for info could potentially help me a lot! > ps: please do not mistake my unhealthy interest in the info system for > some kind of pushy advocacy. i merely seek (perhaps unsuccessfully) to > clarify its accessibility. No problem, and thanks for the tips. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6054cd6a72fac3824e0a293f7ce5de9e.squir...@www.sud-ouest.org
