Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >Daniel Berlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >| On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: >| >| > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote: >| > >| >>> Also, a web-browser is much slower than an info-browser, >| >>> especially when doing searchs. >| >> You must be close to the only user i've met who uses the info >| >> browser :) >| > >| > I use it. Info pages suck in many ways, but they're fast to load >| > from an xterm, fast to search, and even faster when you know where >| > they are in the docs (eg. I find myself looking at the GCC C >| > extensions quite often, and I can get there very quickly). >| >| Most people i've met can't undertand the commands for info (pinfo is >| nicer in this regard). > >maybe the conclusion to draw is that you've met some special people in >a small part of the community. > > > I just had a quick quiz in the C++ IRC channel I was in, and very few people there like info, and very few are comfortable using it. There was a general agreement HTML, PDF and docbook are the best ways to recieve documentation.
Chris
