On Friday 06 February 2009 15:29:21 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 14:58:56 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if > > > you don't know what you are looking for you can glanze them over > > > quickly. > > > > The kde ioslave for info makes this somewhat tolerable. At least you > > move around in a webpage-like environment that feels familiar. > > Which begs the question, why not use HTML? It can be read on just about > anything, searched and either split into chapters or presented as a single > page.
The cynic in me says that it's because Tim Berners-Lee invented HTML, not Richard M Stallman. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
