On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 10:08, Mike Johnson wrote: > Tanner Lovelace [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > Have you tried just: > > > > info <program> > > > > It works quite well. It has the key bindings of emacs, but I > > don't believe it actually uses emacs. > > Not to start a who'e 'emacs' vs 'vi' battle, but I don't know the emacs > bindings, so 'info' is pretty much unusable for me. The navigation > makes very little sense. I'd be happy with lynx being able to be used > to read info files. I suppose it's gotten to the point that most > newbies are using the GUI displays for info pages, but I simply cannot > use them on an X-less box. > > I really don't see the need for info pages. The OpenBSD man pages are > the best I've ever seen. I'm not sure why Linux couldn't just stick to > man pages (hrm, STTFMP).
Well, the whole info versus man pages is an entirely separate issue from how to view info pages. I agree, however, that gnu shouldn't do away with man pages in favor of info. I personally prefer man pages over info pages, but that doesn't mean I didn't figure out how to use the info pages. Perhaps someone who's familiar with info pages could write an info browser that acts like a web browser (text based, since I think there are already gui based ones). This might make info pages more accessible to non-emacs people. Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- GPG Fingerprint = A66C 8660 924F 5F8C 71DA BDD0 CE09 4F8E DE76 39D4 GPG Key can be found at http://wtl.wayfarer.org/lovelace.gpg.asc --*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*-- This would be a very good time to hang out with the Open Source people, before they get formally reclassified as a national security threat. -- Bruce Sterling _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
