Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Amen; the cumulative user interface annoyances with info are awful
info is a pretty bad program (although some of the most notorious
complaints, like not recognizing arrow keys, have been rectified), but
reading them in Emacs is a whole lot nicer.
In any case, Info files and the Emacs browser offer a few advantages
which need to be integrated into any more "modern" doc systems:
* I can hit "i" and look up a word in the index, and be bounced
directly to the first hit. I can hit "," to go to subsequent hits.
* I can do a regexp search through the document.
* I can page through the document in a linear fashion, without finding
and manually clicking on the link. In other words, I can use a
command of the help browser to navigate (which can be a button, be
a key command, etc).
* I can use keyboard commands for everything, like hitting "m" and
tab-completing which link I want to follow.
Some of these features can be gotten in certain web browsers with a
web server which indexes the files, but none of them exist in, say,
the GNOME help browser looking at local files.
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