On Wed, May 11, 2005, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Wed, May 11, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote: > >On Wed, May 11, 2005, Bill Campbell wrote: > > > >> On Wed, May 11, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote: > >> > > >[...] > >> >2. Mandatory documentation > >> >-------------------------- > >> > In short, every documentation that an administrator of a "headless > >> > peripheral host" needs for his daily work is considered "mandatory". > >> > This > >> > are especially manual pages (%prefix/man) and GNU info files > >> > (%prefix/info). > >> > When the packager decides that there should be more mandatory > >> > documentation > >> > it should be placed under %prefix/share/<package>/docs. > >> > >> I would include sample configuration and any text HOWTO files in this > >> category. It would be nice to have something that turned info files into > >> something useful (I generally read them with less since I find it far > >> easier than navigating their ``improved'' way). > > > >Well, the info files are built from texinfo sources. I would like to have > >the HTML versions (using texi2html). I fear this is also not what you want ? > > I prefer simple man pages or text files where I can use less as the pager > with its easy pattern searching.
That is also what i prefer, when i have to find infos very quickly - and that's often. I do not look too often after .info docs, though. I still hate it and even pinfo can not cure this, even when it is somewhat better than what i knowed before. The hate is burned in. But do you know a tool that would give much more improvement "pure text" wise than (using your "less trick") #/bin/sh prefix=/opkg (for i in "$@"; do cat $prefix/info/$i*; done) | less -r (mk) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prämotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
