On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 11:34:08AM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
If you're open to it, may I suggest installing emacs documentation, from
whatever distro you're using, and running:
info '(info)Help'
The file that you need to get installed is info.info
The effect of this is the same as opening the info viewer and hitting
'h' on your keyboard (that, as info tells you on startup, opens the
tutorial).
It should turn the info viewer from an foreign mess into something quite
usable.
No, it's still a foreign mess, with key combinations that are alien to
most users who started on computers in the past 30 years. The users have
voted on this with their keyboards and simply don't like and won't use
it, despite GNU trying to convince them for decades that it's great.
Changing the documentation a little bit isn't going to change that: it's
still asking users to learn a complex new system (not useful for the
*vast* majority of software they use) before getting help on the problem
they're actually trying to solve.
And pinfo has shown that while making the key combinations more
consistent with the larger non-emacs ecosystem helps a bit, it's still
more complexity than people want to deal with.
