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1bdce24e-4406-44c5-9133-bfd0acd02...@p1g2000yqm.googlegroups.com, rustom
wrote:
The printed python docs come to several thousand pages. Do we want them
to be 1 manpage? a hundred? a thousand?
Perl managed to condense a lot of useful information into a handful of man
pages.
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Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net writes:
When the GNU folk decided to clone *nix they decided that they knew
better and simply decided to create their own interfaces.
This isn't the case. Actually Info has a long history prior to GNU: it
was the way that the documentation was presented at the MIT
On 2010-11-04, Mark Wooding m...@distorted.org.uk wrote:
Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net writes:
When the GNU folk decided to clone *nix they decided that they knew
better and simply decided to create their own interfaces.
This isn't the case. Actually Info has a long history prior to GNU: it
Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net writes:
Right, and in info with the default key bindings, backspace takes me
to the command help. I would have expected it to either scroll up the
page or take me to the previously visited node.
Sounds like your terminal is misconfigured. Backspace should
Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net writes:
On 2010-11-04, Mark Wooding m...@distorted.org.uk wrote:
Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net writes:
Actually, the left arrow key does not work at all intuitively. One
would expect that it should go back to the previous page as it
would in lynx, etc. It does
On 2010-11-04, Ben Finney ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au wrote:
As has been noted before, there is no intuitive interface except the
nipple. Everything else is not intuitive, but must be learned.
What exactly is so intuitive about being slapped in the face followed by
being slapped with a lawsuit?
Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi writes:
Enter Follow a link (down to node)
u up node level
h help (general how-to)
? help (commands)
s search
And don't forget:
l last viewed page (aka back)
That one seems to be the info reader's
Guys, this really has nothing to do with python.
On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, Hrvoje Niksic hnik...@xemacs.org wrote:
Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi writes:
Enter Follow a link (down to node)
u up node level
h help (general how-to)
? help (commands)
On Nov 3, 3:11 pm, Daniel da Silva ddasi...@umd.edu wrote:
Guys, this really has nothing to do with python.
?? python docs have nothing to do with python??
python docs by default on linux are read with info and many seem to
find info unpleasant to use.
Myself an old emacs user and cant say info
On Wed, Nov 03 2010, rustom wrote:
On Nov 3, 3:11 pm, Daniel da Silva ddasi...@umd.edu wrote:
Guys, this really has nothing to do with python.
?? python docs have nothing to do with python?? python docs by
default on linux are read with info and many seem to find info
unpleasant to use.
* 2010-11-02 18:43 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
The manual format contains all of the information on one page that can
be easily searched whereas the info pages are split into sections that
must be viewed individually. With the man pages, you can almost always
find what you want with a quick
On 2010-11-02, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote:
* 2010-11-02 18:43 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
The manual format contains all of the information on one page that can
be easily searched whereas the info pages are split into sections that
must be viewed individually. With the man pages, you can
On 2010-11-02, Tim Harig user...@ilthio.net wrote:
On 2010-11-02, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote:
With the text terminal info browser called info as well as Emacs' info
browser you can use command s (stands for search). It prompts for a
regexp pattern to search in the whole document,
* 2010-11-02 19:36 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
On 2010-11-02, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote:
There is also the problem that people are less familiar with info
browsers than the usual less pager which is used by man command.
I thoroughly agree. The default info viewers are quite possibly
On 2010-11-03, Teemu Likonen tliko...@iki.fi wrote:
* 2010-11-02 19:36 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:
I thoroughly agree. The default info viewers are quite possibly the
most counterintuitive programs I have ever encountered. I never did
bother to learn how to use them. I instead installed the more
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