Michael Stone <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 03:31:47PM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote: >>Michael Stone <[email protected]> writes: >>> 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. >> >>I don't disagree. Unfortunately, this isn't unique to 'info'. Nearly >>everything on Unix-like systems is alien to most users who started on >>computers in the past 30 years. > > To clarify: it's alien to nearly everything on unix-like systems. It's > comfortable for people who use emacs as their interface to the system, and > that's not a segment of the population that's been growing in this century. > > [...] > > That's a skill that's broadly transferrable. info isn't. There's not > much ROI on learning a baroque interface to a subset of documentation > (which is also available online) and which will be accessed so > infrequently that a user is likely to have to relearn it every time.
I don't really buy it - there's fairly little interaction to do with the 'info' viewer. It has about the same interface size as a pager. But, again, alternative viewers are quite conceivable. In any case, authoring Texinfo documentation is a better experience, and the final results are generally better. This is independent of the viewer. -- Arsen Arsenović
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