I don't know that I have the oomph to do it but one of the things I wanted
to do in my retirement was convert all the stuff that is in debian back
from info to man(7).
I *hate* info. It has made Linux less available to a lot of people.
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 02:07:58PM +1100, John Gardner wrote
> The info stuff alienates anyone who is not an emacs fan
I'm an Emacs fan, and I also find the Info system abhorrent and confusing.
It's a different story if you're using Emacs, because the Info system is
well-integrated and as easy to navigate as any other buffer (and most Emacs
users will have
On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 12:21:43AM +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>
> > And at this point, the man(7) language is better maintained and
> > appears to have more of a future than texinfo, which has been a lame
> > duck now for at least half a decade, probably longer:
> >
>
> Uh, oh, no idea why you
Ingo,
> From: Ingo Schwarze [mailto:schwa...@usta.de]
> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2020 2:26 PM
Free Software?
--
> Oh. Seeing you ask a question about the formatting of a manual page
> on a public list concerned with free software, i jumped to the conclusion
> that you wanted to pub
> And at this point, the man(7) language is better maintained and
> appears to have more of a future than texinfo, which has been a lame
> duck now for at least half a decade, probably longer:
>
Uh, oh, no idea why you bash texinfo from time to time. Currently, it
receives more active developme
Hi Jeff,
Jeff Conrad wrote on Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 03:45:16PM -0800:
> I neglected to mention that the page is for a very specialized command
> and is unlikely to exist in other than PDF format except on my system.
> Everyone using it so far is running Windows, so no one is likely to say
> "man "
