info and man

[Giles Orr]

I'm with you - I hate "info," both the format and the viewer.  This
doesn't directly address your question, but may help to some extent:
install and try out the "pinfo" viewer (it's been around a while,
should be available as an automagic package for any major system).  It
has a more intuitive interface, including clever ideas like pressing
the forward arrow on links to other nodes, and the back arrow to
return.

On 5/20/06, Paul King <pking123-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org> 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.

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