Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The alternative is to also provide good and complete man pages > > with all GNU packages. > > I don't see why the GNU project needs to provide duplicate sets > of documentation.
You misunderstand. It was meant as an absurd alternative: providing all GNU documents also as well-formatted man pages is surely far more costly than providing a separately and concisely documented Info reader with simple default key bindings. > the standalone Info reader has the --usage command-line that > should get you to that section, i.e. "info --usage FOO" should > perform the same mission as "man FOO". Well, 'man man' gives me the man page of `man` the program, but 'info info' does not give me the Info document about `info` the program. Sure, 'info info-stnd' would give me that, but who is ever going to guess that? Not even 'man info' mentions this. And no one is going to read 'info info' until they find the reference to info-stnd in "Advanced Info Commands". What most people want from the 'info info' document is a simple list of the most common commands, something like what <H> gives in `less`, but simpler. (<H> in `info` is far too complex, it uses only half of the screen, and when you press <Q> it quits the whole Info reader instead of just the help, even when --vi-keys is in effect.) > Did you try the --vi-keys option? If not, please try, I think > you will like it. It's hard to tell, as there is no simple, short list that shows how --vi-keys changes the bindings, a list with just three columns: action, default key, vi-like key. Also, --vi-keys does not switch cursor-movement-scrolls on; it should. And how is one supposed to select a menu item when --vi-keys is in effect? The Enter key then simply scrolls down one line; this is making `info` harder to use, not easier. Benno
