On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:17:56 pm Chris Rees wrote: > Info is horrible to use as a quick reference, because as Polytropon > said earlier, you can't just dive in to get something specific. The > info is split into (arbitrary????) sections, through which you have to > tread, and jump around hyperlinks all over.
In fairness, a good info browser (eg Emacs) makes searching in an info doc trivially easy. I think the biggest problem is that /usr/bin/info is horrid and people lump their impression of it onto their impression of info docs as a whole. -- Kirk Strauser _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
