>
> Is it truely the info pages you hate, or just the info user
> interface program? I suspect the latter. I like what info is
> TRYING to do - hyperlink documentation in a useful manner, but
> the UI just plain sucks. HTML'ing it means I can choose my own
> UI - Lynx/Netscape, etc..
>
> The info documents are very useful. Try reading them with
> midnight commander in the /usr/info dir, or with less or
> something. You get a bunch of crap here and there, but don't
> have to screw with the crappy info UI. ;o)
I dislike both. the info command is woeful; most of the documents I try to
read are poorly organised and I have to find a mile of links to get what I
want. In many cases, many of the links prove to be false leads.
When I want to know about a command, I want to know about that command. I
don't want to spend ages trying to figure the command's use so I can
back-track false leads.
I came to Linux from OS/2. I sorely miss OS/2's hypertext information browser;
it's accessible from the commandline so one can type
help ibm1s506
and it opens the relevant page in a PM window. There's a search facility, one
can search the current manual or ALL manuals. There are navigation buttons for
sequential access (like reading a book) revisiting previous pages, going
directly to the contents or index.
In contrast, it's year 2000 and the info command does not even understand a
mouse.
It's true that GNOME and KDE have better interfaces to the documentation,
Well, better for beginners; I still find myself using the man command a great
deal as it's quicker when I know what I want to see. However, they're still
not very good.
_______________________________________________
Redhat-devel-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
