On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 09:38:49AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

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> Now, as for the info pages themselves: unlike traditional man pages,
> where all of the documentation is on one page, in which you can scroll
> up and down and search, info pages are chopped up into tiny little
> sections, and you only see one section at a time [...]

To be fair, info has links going across "pages" and you can search
across several pages.

Of course, tool usage is, above all else, habit. Changing from man
to info is almost as painful as the other way around.

There goes a missed chance for (more than one!) unified user interfaces,
alas.

Cheers
 - t

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