>
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Tony Nugent wrote:
>
> >> At 10:35 8/19/00 -0700, Joseph Malicki wrote:
> >> >glibc is documented in info, not manpages. the manpages there are just
> >> >an incomplete and in some cases inaccurate collection, werent they from
> >> >libc5 or something? The wonders of GNU software.......
> >>
> >> then can we please get rid of the stupid man pages?
> >
> >Can we please get rid of the stupid info pages, and have a set of
> >updated man pages to replace them?
> >
> >(Just wanted to "put my hand up for the opposition", since I'm no
> >fan of info pages).
>
> Is it truely the info pages you hate, or just the info user
> interface program? I suspect the latter. I like what info is
> TRYING to do - hyperlink documentation in a useful manner, but
> the UI just plain sucks. HTML'ing it means I can choose my own
> UI - Lynx/Netscape, etc..
>
> The info documents are very useful. Try reading them with
> midnight commander in the /usr/info dir, or with less or
> something. You get a bunch of crap here and there, but don't
> have to screw with the crappy info UI. ;o)
>
Info, the program, was never intended to be the main reader for info
pages. It was just a quick hack written for VI users. GNU is Not
Unix and GNU's official editor is not VI but Emacs. GNU Emacs or
Xemacs make for a far superior info-page reader to info (the program).
The Gnome help system is also able to display info pages.
A problem with info pages is that quite often they are far too
exhaustive for the user who just wants to know how to invoke a
program: just try to find in them the complete list of arguments for
gcc. But this is not so much info's fault than the way the doc is
organized.
I am also quite sure there was a converter for info to HTML (llok out
for info2html in google or freshmeat) but navigating with lynx is not
precisely pleasant and I certainly don't want to use the memory
leaking Netscrape.
--
Jean Francois Martinez
Project Independence: Linux for the Masses
http://www.independence.seul.org
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