Re: Info vs. Man (Was Re: basename()?)

[Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-]

While I prefer man pages due to their concise nature, in dealing with
the reality of info pages, I've found TkInfo invaluable.  It's definitely
worth checking out.

    http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/

Michael Sterrett
  -Mr. Bones.-
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On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Stephen Schaefer-NCS Sr SE wrote:

> Amen; the cumulative user interface annoyances with info are awful
> (and I'm and emacs fan!); but the idea that extensive and in-depth
> documentation be organized in a hyper-linked tree with extensive
> indexing is good.  In fact, it would be just peachy if I could
> navigate the info documentation with my web browser.  I thought there
> was supposed to be a texinfo to html translator, but for some reason
> the texinfo documents aren't delivered that way, and it would be a
> redundant use of space.  An alternative might be a CGI program that
> would let the web server translate the .info files into html on the
> fly; has anyone written something like that?
> 
>       - Stephen P. Schaefer
> 
> On 21 Aug, Dave Ihnat wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:01:37PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> It should be the opposite: let's move off the obsolete man pages: thay
> >> were great in the seventies but today we have far more powerful
> >> machines who allow far richer ways of provising information.
> > 
> > That's fine; but info is NOT the way to go.  It's an awkward, sadly outdated
> > interface.
> > 
> > There is STILL a need for manpage-style documentation.  Man pages are
> > intended to be brief, concise developer or user notes.  You shouldn't
> > get theory of design, discussion of performance tradeoffs, etc. in a
> > man page; there should be a full document behind man page sets that
> > provides that kind of information.
> > 
> > I don't want to wade through reams of material I no longer need once I've
> > learned a package or system; I want brief usage reminders (without bloating
> > my software.)  And I want an intuitive interface; info sux at that.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > -- 
> >     Dave Ihnat
> >     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > 
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