As you suspect, I am refering to /usr/bin/info.
As I said, I do read the info files. I also have to be desperate. I
have not used xemacs to read it. I will see if I can figure that out when
I get the round tuit.
My favorite editor is nedit. It used to be lucid emacs, but that seems
to have disappeared.
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> Bug Hunter wrote:
>
> > The documentation in man is not always reasonable. It is good enough,
> > most of the time. I've found info so counter-intuitive for me that I have to
> > be desperate to use it.
>
> Are you referring to Info generally, or to the standalone info viewer
> (/usr/bin/info)?
>
> The latter isn't much use, IMHO. I suspect that the reason that nobody
> has bothered to improve it is that most programmers use (X)Emacs,
> which has a perfectly good Info viewer built-in.
>
> If you want to make any significant use of GNU software, you need to
> be prepared to read the Info files.
