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From: | Dave Jarvis |
Subject: | Re: Gripes with "info" Command |
Date: | Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:17:41 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920 |
Hi,
Standalone info was implemented perhaps 15 years ago as a clone of Emacs Info, which itself dates back to before the GNU project existed. If
Perhaps there should be a motion to sundown it?What I cannot stand is the whole "for more details on this command see the info pages." I have tried that on a couple of occasions. I usually wind up quite frustrated.
man pages, for those in the know, are incredibly useful, often extremely well written, and undoubtedly succinct.
BTW, I completely agree with you about "help" doing something reasonable. Sigh.
Who would be best to talk with about implementing such an idea? Dave
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