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 wor
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 23:07:01 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
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:14, Anders Johansson wrote:
> ...
>
> using the info:/ url in konqueror makes reading info pages less like
> a nightmare
>
> To read the info page for bc in a format that won't make you cry,
> just go to info:/bc in konqueror
That is what I do when I must read info
[Randall R Schulz]
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 15:14, Anders Johansson wrote:
...
using the info:/ url in konqueror makes reading info pages less like
a nightmare
To read the info page for bc in a format that won't make you cry,
just go to info:/bc in konqueror
That is what I do when I
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The Wednesday 2007-12-12 at 22:59 -0500, François Pinard wrote:
I'm surprised when people say that it is a nightmare to read Info format
documentation, as it is really a very simple thing to do, for anyone with any
small drop of good will. Night
On Thursday 13 December 2007 04:59:19 François Pinard wrote:
> But I'm kidding a bit, and know that some people who cannot stand Info
> are mouse addicts, while "info" requires the keyboard. For those who do
> not know, the keyboard is that big huge mouse next to the usual one,
> absolutely full o
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The Friday 2007-12-14 at 01:01 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
I work primarily with the keyboard, that's not what it's about
info, for whatever reason, chose to have a completely different set of key
bindings from any other application known to m
Hi,
Carlos E. R. wrote:
> Forget 'info', use 'pinfo'. It is intuitive, uses colors, displays
> either man or info pages, depending on what it finds really nice.
I've tried it. Surely better to operate than info, especially it
has vi key bindings for basic operations. But how to search for
keyw
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 14:46 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Friday 2007-12-14 at 04:27 +0100, Stephan Hegel wrote:
> > Carlos E. R. wrote:
> >> Forget 'info', use 'pinfo'. It is intuitive, uses colors, displays
> >> either man or info pages, depending on what it finds really nice.
> > I've tri
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The Friday 2007-12-14 at 04:27 +0100, Stephan Hegel wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Forget 'info', use 'pinfo'. It is intuitive, uses colors, displays
either man or info pages, depending on what it finds really nice.
I've tried it. Surely better
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The Friday 2007-12-14 at 10:31 -0500, François Pinard wrote:
Yes. Info pages are one by-product of Texinfo format, which also can produce
laser-printable manuals, and HTML pages. At the very beginning, some people
were writing Info pages direct
[Dave Howorth]
there are lots of websites that contain HTML-formatted man pages. Are
there any sites that have HTML-formatted info pages (preferably all
pages for one app on one HTML page :) ?
Yes. Info pages are one by-product of Texinfo format, which also can
produce laser-printable manu
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 10:31 -0500, François Pinard wrote:
> [Dave Howorth]
>
> > there are lots of websites that contain HTML-formatted man pages. Are
> > there any sites that have HTML-formatted info pages (preferably all
> > pages for one app on one HTML page :) ?
>
> Yes
It's good to know
[François Pinard]
I see two reasons for why one would want one bulky [HTML] page (I'm
curious to know if there are other reasons):
Oh, I just thought of a third: because one wants to read all
documentation by paging through it in the browser, from beginning to
end, while they would have to c
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The Friday 2007-12-14 at 16:28 -, Dave Howorth wrote:
It's good to know that it's theoretically possible but it doesn't answer
my question. "Are there any sites that have HTML-formatted info pages".
Yes, localhost. ie, your own machine. You
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 20:00 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> > It's good to know that it's theoretically possible but it doesn't answer
> > my question. "Are there any sites that ha
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The Friday 2007-12-14 at 19:42 -, Dave Howorth wrote:
http://localhost/cgi-bin/info2html
Ah, thanks for that. It looks good but when I click on any link it says:
File IO Error
The Info file could not be opened for reading.
Me too... and
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 01:48 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Friday 2007-12-14 at 19:42 -, Dave Howorth wrote:
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> >> http://localhost/cgi-bin/info2html
> >
> > Ah, thanks for that. It looks good but when I click on any link it says:
> > File IO Error
> > The Info file could not be opened fo
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