On 2024-07-28 22:49:43 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 28 Jul 2024 at 16:23:48 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2024-07-28 00:08:51 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > > On Sun 28 Jul 2024 at 02:06:38 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > > But for searching, how can one get the previous match
On Sun 28 Jul 2024 at 16:23:48 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2024-07-28 00:08:51 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sun 28 Jul 2024 at 02:06:38 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > On 2024-07-23 11:13:47 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > > > The GNU info documentation is really intended to be
On 2024-07-28 00:08:51 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 28 Jul 2024 at 02:06:38 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > On 2024-07-23 11:13:47 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > > The GNU info documentation is really intended to be read in Emacs where
> > > some nice formatting is done in the GUI Emacs
On Sun 28 Jul 2024 at 02:06:38 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2024-07-23 11:13:47 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > The GNU info documentation is really intended to be read in Emacs where
> > some nice formatting is done in the GUI Emacs version. The stand alone
> > GNU info browser is rather
On 27/07/2024 20:00, Nate Bargmann wrote:
Texinfo is from a time when GNU documentation was only man pages or flat
text files and something "better" was desired for moving through a
manual in what is now known as a hypertext format. It also includes a
lot of semantic markup rather than the basi
On 2024-07-23 11:13:47 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> The GNU info documentation is really intended to be read in Emacs where
> some nice formatting is done in the GUI Emacs version. The stand alone
> GNU info browser is rather obtuse. I found a much better option to be
> the independent pinfo (De
On Sat, 2024-07-27 at 19:04 +, Jaap van Wingerde wrote:
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> Nate Bargmann schreef op 27 juli 2024 13:00:17 UTC:
>
> > I typically will search for an HTML version of a GNU manual. The
> > only
> > problem is that what is found online are the latest versions and
> > Debian
> > Stable packa
Nate Bargmann schreef op 27 juli 2024 13:00:17 UTC:
>I typically will search for an HTML version of a GNU manual. The only
>problem is that what is found online are the latest versions and Debian
>Stable packages may be a version or two behind.
It's a pity that besides 'manpages.debian.org',
* On 2024 25 Jul 07:48 -0500, Oliver Schode wrote:
> To be honest I'm not happy with the info format still being around,
> precisely because sometimes man pages don't cut it, and we should have
> something better by now. On the other hand, and I'll make no bones
> about it, so called chatbots turne
On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:13:47 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote:
> where some nice formatting is done in the GUI Emacs version. The
> stand alone GNU info browser is rather obtuse. I found a much better
> option to be the independent pinfo (Debian package of the same name)
> browser which provides navig
* On 2024 23 Jul 11:53 -0500, mick.crane wrote:
> On 2024-07-23 13:03, songbird wrote:
> > i run debian testing most of the time with bits of
> > unstable (firefox).
> >
> > once in a while i want more detail than man pages
> > supply and so i reach for info pages instead.
> >
> > if you've n
On 2024-07-23 13:03, songbird wrote:
i run debian testing most of the time with bits of
unstable (firefox).
once in a while i want more detail than man pages
supply and so i reach for info pages instead.
if you've never explored info pages in general
you can just start with the command "inf
* On 2024 23 Jul 07:18 -0500, songbird wrote:
> i run debian testing most of the time with bits of
> unstable (firefox).
>
> once in a while i want more detail than man pages
> supply and so i reach for info pages instead.
>
> if you've never explored info pages in general
> you can just st
i run debian testing most of the time with bits of
unstable (firefox).
once in a while i want more detail than man pages
supply and so i reach for info pages instead.
if you've never explored info pages in general
you can just start with the command "info".
this is just a tidbit for thos
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