On Feb 6, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Grant Edwards <gra...@visi.com> wrote:
On 2009-02-06, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Info has been around a lot longer than HTML, but I think you're
largely correct.
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today??!
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I'd wager to think that if we did use HTML, we'd simply argue about
the order of it's presentation or use of bold and underlines.
