Linda Walsh wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:Randall R Schulz wrote:On Tuesday 11 December 2007 02:32, Carlos E. R. wrote:Both have good man pages.And "info" pages.Gack!WTF is with the FSF and their insistance on scrimping on the man pages, and only putting the detailed documentation in the info pages.And worse, they're quite snide about it.--- *snicker*... but but but...isn't it derived from the interface god dictated to Stallman for Emacs? Your words border on heresy!
which is fine if you like emacs. Personally, I find the emacs interface horrid. I migrated from two editors, screen editor (se) and ex to vi in the middle of a semester, and suffered no loss in productivity. I later tried to migrate from vi to emacs, and it was nothing but annoyance. Not because of reflexive use of vi key-usage, but because the emacs interface is just so... clumsy. control-meta-left_flipper-pinball_plunger....
As someone else mentioned, "pinfo", at least, has
That was me.
a bearable interface. Of course if you have a problem with the 'info' tool, you can always consult the 'info' page for info.... :-) (*sigh*) (not that I would agree with your sentiment or anything..:-))
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