David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> writes: > The big problem with emacs is that it looks like that most unhelpful of > "help" systems, GNU info.
Meh, I personally prefer it to a wad of randomly-structured HTML, though I agree that the standalone Info reader is a polyp of evil. In any case, it sure beats either a PDF or, as is increasingly common nowadays, "please visit our AJAX-enhanced website for documentation." Because, you know, no one ever uses software without broadband... > I like ed. It would be foolish to try to use him as an > interactive text editor, but piping a string of commands to his > STDIN is a thing of beauty, and sometimes works. I actually once interned for a really smart guy who wrote all his scientific papers (LaTeX) with an ed clone, tedi, because it was the closest thing to the old VMS line editor that he could find. The code many of the papers were based on was a mixture of FORTRAN IV and FORTRAN 77. /s
