On Thu, May 12, 2005, Matthias Kurz wrote: >On Wed, May 11, 2005, Bill Campbell wrote: ... >> I prefer simple man pages or text files where I can use less as the pager >> with its easy pattern searching. > >That is also what i prefer, when i have to find infos very quickly - >and that's often. I do not look too often after .info docs, though. I still >hate it and even pinfo can not cure this, even when it is somewhat better >than what i knowed before. The hate is burned in. But do you know a tool >that would give much more improvement "pure text" wise than (using your >"less trick")
I generally do something like ``openpkg rpm -ql package | grep info'' the less the appropriate files (I like the recent kde action in xterms where double clicking on the file name highlights the whole thing which is faster than dragging the whole thing :-). I've also found konqueror useful with URLS like ``info:gcc'' -- it isn't text, but it's better than nothing. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ The is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. -- Robert Heinlein ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List openpkg-dev@openpkg.org
