On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Feb 19, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote: > > > > > > > I would prefer HTML-docs (->texi2html). > > > > > > With the regular info(1) command the .info files are fully useless IMHO. > > > But with pinfo(1) (see our "pinfo" package) they are as good to read as > > > the results from texi2html are with w3m(1). > > > > Well, i did not read your last sentence carefully enough. Thought, you > > meaned, that w3m has special info support. > > Does this mean, you use w3m as your preferred browser ? > > For reading HTML documentation files on my filesystem, yes. > For reading HTML pages on the Web I also use Mozilla, of course.
Well, there will be more and more graphics... I use Mozilla also for local files. Why use different tools for the same work ? I still use mutt, to read my mails, though :-) Or vi (or emacs/viper) and less. But this works only, because i use it locally. Using text based tools with a "rich" interface (even less, vi, mutt) remotely can fast become a horror szenario. Especially in heterogenous environments. "xterm" is by far not "xterm" on every machine. I'm often near an heart attack, i.e. when i log in from a Solaris machine to a Linux machine (Solaris xterm) and try to use less or vi on the remote machine. I prefer to read documentations in my browser (no PDF, either, thanks). Apart from the easier remote access, there are other advantages like indexing, bookmarks, forking multiple windows/tabs, navigation between different documentations (not all come with .info docs and even text only docs look acceptable in a browser), quick side steps in the global WWW... Well, this holds at least for the more detailed docs. I still prefer a clean and concise man page with some nice, short examples over most. (mk) -- Matthias Kurz; Fuldastr. 3; D-28199 Bremen; VOICE +49 421 53 600 47 >> Im prämotorischen Cortex kann jeder ein Held sein. (bdw) << ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
