On Sun, Jul 24, 2022 at 06:27:58PM -0500, Dave Kemper wrote: > On 7/24/22, Larry McVoy <l...@mcvoy.com> wrote: > > I don't use the texinfo manual because it > > is very emacs-like and I'm a vi person. > > A trick I learned on this list a while back is that you can read the > info manual's content without using the info interface simply by > piping the "info" command: "info groff | less" gives you the entire > manual in the same pager you probably use for man pages (and which has > a vi-like interface for moving and searching). I read the manual > exclusively this way.
Thank you for that, will add that to my list of ways to deal with GNUisms. > alias infogroff="info groff | I need to study this. > I believe the GNU troff manual was originally written in Texinfo > because at the time this was the GNU documentation standard. This > requirement seems to have relaxed over the years as the people who > hate "info" have vastly outnumbered those who like it. Amen to that. I tried to like emacs, lived in it for a year, hated it. That hate transferred 100% to texinfo. Thanks again for the work around. --lm
