from Lowell Gilbert: > That's fair. The help messages are enough for me to work out syntax > without going back to first principles, but, yes, that's pretty much > what I expect from a man page. > > Personally, I would much prefer a real man page.
> Funny you should mention that. Some years back, I bashed out a script > that turned the svn help into a browsable document. I can't find that > tool in a quick search of my backups, and I don't even remember whether > it converted things into HTML or info files. [As an emacs user, info is > roughly equivalent to HTML for such things; I have no idea how info can > be useful if you aren't using emacs to browse the docs.] > But the point is that I found the cross-link information fairly easy to > parse. And once you can do that, you can turn it into anything useful. I wish GNU would switch away from info in favor of man or html! When I ran Linux Slackware 13.0, Konqueror in KDE had a good info viewer. Otherwise, there is misc/pinfo in ports. Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"