On 09/09/2014 10:52 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:31:35PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
It's useful to many, but I agree most don't bother with it
due to the awkward non intuitive default info reader _interface_
(though pinfo is a bit better in that regard).
Right. I've heard the argument for 15 years that info docs are really good,
it's just the interface. :) In all that time, a better interface hasn't really
caught on, and the web happened.
Though it would be better to have direct links.
Now the above full node URL is too long/awkward, so I've just now setup
redirects,
so the following proposed new trailers for ls --help and man pages should work:
ls --help:
...
Full documentation online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls>
Full installed documentation: info '(coreutils) ls invocation'
A huge improvement. I suspect that this might also help the info docs show up
in google, instead of being below the fold. Alternative wording:
Full documentation online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ls invocation'
BTW,
"http://gnu.org/s/"; redirects to "http://www.gnu.org/software/"; ,
so
http://gnu.org/s/coreutils/ls
also works.
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