Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> writes: > Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes: > > > I've lost track of how many times I've tried to learn to use the Gnu > > "info" command and gave up in frustration. I've never seen a program > > with a more difficult to use UI. > > As I recall, there are other info viewers like tkinfo for example. But > really, how hard is the basic info? Enter to go down a topic, u or l > to back, s for search? Seems simple enough for me.
Yes, and non-standard; it ignores the finger-memory of both Vim *and* Emacs users. > What's really annoying is when the man page for a program finishes > with a boilerplate announcement that the info version of the > documentation is more complete. With the caveat “If the info and ls programs are properly installed at your site”, which it might not be; see below. > And yet, all the info version is, is the same manual page, including > the same boilerplate... That's what ‘info’ does if there's not actually any info documentation installed for the entry, but there is a manual page. Some of the GNU documentation is only licensed under FDL, which is (despite its name) a license that doesn't meet the FSF's own definition of software freedom. For that reason, it tends not to be included in some major free-software operating systems. A damned shame, but a result of some members in the FSF trying to apply different freedoms to different purposes. -- \ “I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me | `\ as members.” —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
