On 2010-11-04, Ben Finney wrote:
> As has been noted before, there is no intuitive interface except the
> nipple. Everything else is not intuitive, but must be learned.
What exactly is so intuitive about being slapped in the face followed by
being slapped with a lawsuit?
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Tim Harig writes:
> On 2010-11-04, Mark Wooding wrote:
> > Tim Harig writes:
> >> Actually, the left arrow key does not work at all intuitively. One
> >> would expect that it should go back to the previous page as it
> >> would in lynx, etc. It does not.
> >
> > It moves the cursor so you can h
Tim Harig writes:
> Right, and in info with the default key bindings, backspace takes me
> to the command help. I would have expected it to either scroll up the
> page or take me to the previously visited node.
Sounds like your terminal is misconfigured. Backspace should produce
^?, not ^H. (
On 2010-11-04, Mark Wooding wrote:
> Tim Harig writes:
>
>> When the GNU folk decided to clone *nix they decided that they knew
>> better and simply decided to create their own interfaces.
>
> This isn't the case. Actually Info has a long history prior to GNU: it
> was the way that the documenta
Tim Harig writes:
> When the GNU folk decided to clone *nix they decided that they knew
> better and simply decided to create their own interfaces.
This isn't the case. Actually Info has a long history prior to GNU: it
was the way that the documentation was presented at the MIT AI lab. In
fact
In message
<1bdce24e-4406-44c5-9133-bfd0acd02...@p1g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, rustom
wrote:
> The printed python docs come to several thousand pages. Do we want them
> to be 1 manpage? a hundred? a thousand?
Perl managed to condense a lot of useful information into a handful of man
pages.
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On Wed, Nov 03 2010, rustom wrote:
> On Nov 3, 3:11 pm, Daniel da Silva wrote:
>> Guys, this really has nothing to do with python.
>
> ?? python docs have nothing to do with python?? python docs by
> default on linux are read with info and many seem to find info
> unpleasant to use.
Actually, t
On Nov 3, 3:11 pm, Daniel da Silva wrote:
> Guys, this really has nothing to do with python.
?? python docs have nothing to do with python??
python docs by default on linux are read with info and many seem to
find info unpleasant to use.
Myself an old emacs user and cant say info helps me as muc
Guys, this really has nothing to do with python.
On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> Teemu Likonen writes:
>
>> Enter Follow a link (down to node)
>> u up node level
>> h help (general how-to)
>> ? help (commands)
>> s search
>
> A
Teemu Likonen writes:
> Enter Follow a link (down to node)
> u up node level
> h help (general how-to)
> ? help (commands)
> s search
And don't forget:
l last viewed page (aka "back")
That one seems to be the info reader's best-kept sec
On 2010-11-03, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2010-11-02 19:36 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
>> I thoroughly agree. The default info viewers are quite possibly the
>> most counterintuitive programs I have ever encountered. I never did
>> bother to learn how to use them. I instead installed the more
>> intuiti
* 2010-11-02 19:36 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
> On 2010-11-02, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> There is also the problem that people are less familiar with info
>> browsers than the usual "less" pager which is used by "man" command.
>
> I thoroughly agree. The default info viewers are quite possibly the
> m
On 2010-11-02, Tim Harig wrote:
> On 2010-11-02, Teemu Likonen wrote:
>> With the text terminal info browser called "info" as well as Emacs' info
>> browser you can use command "s" (stands for "search"). It prompts for a
>> regexp pattern to search in the whole document, including subsections
>>
On 2010-11-02, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2010-11-02 18:43 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
>
>> The manual format contains all of the information on one page that can
>> be easily searched whereas the info pages are split into sections that
>> must be viewed individually. With the man pages, you can almost
* 2010-11-02 18:43 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
> The manual format contains all of the information on one page that can
> be easily searched whereas the info pages are split into sections that
> must be viewed individually. With the man pages, you can almost always
> find what you want with a quick se
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