Re: Man pages and info pages (was: Python documentation too difficult for beginners)

2010-11-02 Thread Tim Harig
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 >>

Re: Man pages and info pages (was: Python documentation too difficult for beginners)

2010-11-02 Thread Tim Harig
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

Man pages and info pages (was: Python documentation too difficult for beginners)

2010-11-02 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 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