On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 03:31:47PM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
Michael Stone <[email protected]> writes:
No, it's still a foreign mess, with key combinations that are alien to
most users who started on computers in the past 30 years.
I don't disagree. Unfortunately, this isn't unique to 'info'. Nearly
everything on Unix-like systems is alien to most users who started on
computers in the past 30 years.
To clarify: it's alien to nearly everything on unix-like systems. It's
comfortable for people who use emacs as their interface to the system,
and that's not a segment of the population that's been growing in this
century.
In classes, I have to teach how to operate 'man', commands lines,
That's a skill that's broadly transferrable. info isn't. There's not
much ROI on learning a baroque interface to a subset of documentation
(which is also available online) and which will be accessed so
infrequently that a user is likely to have to relearn it every time.
The users have voted on this with their keyboards and simply don't
like and won't use it, despite GNU trying to convince them for decades
that it's great.
Is it really a valid vote if there's missing documentation?
Yes. Again, it's been *decades*, going back well before there were
distributions to do it "wrong".
