My theory is that GNU tools were so bloated by design that they realized that they couldn't write a decent man page for their tools so they invented the info pages and the --help flag.
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:25 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > On Fri Mar 25 07:52:10 EDT 2011, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: >> I really like the GNU project's Texinfo markup language, which >> sets on top of TeX, but you don't have to know TeX. (I've been using >> Texinfo for > 20 years, but don't know any TeX.) >> >> I've written books in troff, Docbook/XML, and Texinfo, and Texinfo is >> by far the easiest. > > i never could get past the fact that texbook reeks of hubris > and nih, nor forgive gnu for using info as an excuse for not > having man pages. that, and the fact that it's at least 100x > slower than troff, and the reader requires cursor addressing. > > - erik > >
