Scott McClelland wrote:
I was refering to the subject - that you hate info and man. I know that
sometimes you need more than the terse discription of the command, but I
meant that navigating is easier, if you know some shortcuts.
Probably so. But... ...vi commands? I mean, really! It's like coming
to a haystack covering an acre.
I find that when man doesn't have what I need, I look for an example
somewhere (maybe a HOWTO, or google, or a book), but it generally works as a
reminder for something you have used before, but don't remember it's syntax.
That is perhaps the best description of "man" I have heard. It is
excellent for review, or for those who are familiar with how it presents
ideas and such. But it rather lacks on giving newcomers (to a
particular command, or to "man" in general) an adequate leg up in many
cases.
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Subject: Re: I hate "info" (and "man") (and love them too)
Scott McClelland wrote:
You'll probably hate it less, if you start to use vi commands
for searching.
G -- to go to the end of the document Capital-G
/ -- To find a word use /, n, N (slash followed by search word,
n for next,
N for previous)
e.g.
$ man ls
/color<enter>
"/, n, N" are probably about 50% of the commands in vi that I already
know. I use them often in man. I've been introduced to others but have
forgotten the ones I don't use often (which is most of them). But I
don't think learning vi commands are going to help me much. I'm not
sure what you're referring to by "it" when you say "You'll probably hate
'it' less..." since I talked about several different things that I hate.
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