On 2023-09-25 12:58, Rob Landley wrote:
On 9/24/23 01:37, James Feeney via GNU coreutils General Discussion
wrote:
Sorry, that was probably a bit harsh.
No, people used to regularly boggle at why info still exists:
https://www.reddit.com/r/gnu/comments/240mle/why_does_gnu_cling_to_info/
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/77514/what-is-gnu-info-for
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/159859/why-didnt-gnu-info-succeed-man
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/27dxrr/does_anybody_use_gnu_info/
These days, info seems so dead nobody talks about it at all anymore.
Here's a brief insight into what happened about 15-20 years ago when I
tried using GNU info for the first time... I failed to see how is it
supposed to be used, and how the actual information is to be reached,
after trying that for ~10 minutes or so, maybe even a few times, IIRC.
Mind you, I _wanted_ to use info, and I did learn to use vim beforehand,
which seems to be a posterboy for hard to use utilities.
Here's a patch I used to apply to binutils 11 years ago:
https://github.com/landley/aboriginal/blob/master/sources/patches/binutils-screwinfo.patch
Rob
