On 10:00 15 Nov 2002, Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> wrote:
| On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 06:50:47PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
| > %% Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > | Sorry, I somehow missed that paragraph. I just can't operate info
| > | :-/
| > cs> You may want my "man" script, which presents info as one of the
| > cs> choices for manual pages. More to the point, it parses info files
| > cs> and turns them into a single flat text document, which of course
| > cs> you browse with your pager as with ordinary manual entries.
|
| Yes, please! That's exactly what I need!
Start here:
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/css/index.html#s-text-info2x
and get the info2man.tar.gz file and also fetch:
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/scripts/man
which is the script itself. You then add the info dirs to your $MANPATH
and go. It may have a few dependencies on my environment which I'd be
happy to iron out, so let me know if it gives you trouble. In particular
it expects the envvar $OS to be "linux" on linux systems (well, actually
groff-based systems). Hmm, I see there's now an nroff on my redhat box, so
maybe you won't need the groff incantation at all.
[...]
| > In particular, the "s" (search) and "i" (index lookup) are critically
| > important to know. Once you know these you can do more with Info that
| > you can do with either man pages or HTML.
|
| I really don't want to rant about the interface of info here. Let
| it suffice to say that I absolutely *hate* hierarchical documents.
| And info operates a bit like vi, a bit like lynx and a bit like
| emacs, but not quite. That totally confuses me.
I would second that hierachical remark - I also really hate limping
through HOWTO web documents which are typically presented in pieces :-(
And I generally want a big document in the pager my fingers know.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
... that, in a few years, all great physical constants will have been
approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be
left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another
place of decimals. - James Clerk Maxwell (1813-1879)
Scientific Papers 2, 244, October 1871
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