info and man

[James Knott]

Paul King wrote:
> This is a pet peeve that has been bugging me ever since Linux has
> adopted "info" as the standard for help documents. 
> 
> Am I the only one who finds info unwieldy and difficult to navigate
> through? I use the word "difficult" loosely. If all I want is the
> manpage for a command, I shouldn't have to navigate through anything
> except that single document.
> 
> The interface for document navigation under info borrows none of the
> conventions from other programs the way man did. Man used less
> (sometimes more) as the way to present its troff/nroff-formatted
> documents, and that was very simple to navigate (using /).

If you're using KDE, press alt-f2 and then in the box ##<subject>.  Use 
only one # for man pages.
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