Evidence: http://jfloren.net/its-info.png
That's a screenshot of Info running on an ITS system :) John On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:32 AM, John Floren <j...@jfloren.net> wrote: > Well, I think it's more that Richard Stallman was so ridiculously in > love with ITS's documentation system (which was pretty good for its > time, I admit) that he decided to clone it for Unix. > > Could the bloat of GNU tools merely be a ploy by rms to force people > into using info? :) > > > John > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:10 AM, pmarin <pmarin.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My theory is that GNU tools were so bloated by design that they >> realized that they couldn't write a decent man page for their tools >> so they invented the info pages and the --help flag. >> >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:25 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> >> wrote: >>> On Fri Mar 25 07:52:10 EDT 2011, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: >>>> I really like the GNU project's Texinfo markup language, which >>>> sets on top of TeX, but you don't have to know TeX. (I've been using >>>> Texinfo for > 20 years, but don't know any TeX.) >>>> >>>> I've written books in troff, Docbook/XML, and Texinfo, and Texinfo is >>>> by far the easiest. >>> >>> i never could get past the fact that texbook reeks of hubris >>> and nih, nor forgive gnu for using info as an excuse for not >>> having man pages. that, and the fact that it's at least 100x >>> slower than troff, and the reader requires cursor addressing. >>> >>> - erik >>> >>> >> >> >
