info and man

William Park opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org
Wed May 24 21:18:51 UTC 2006


On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:22:45PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> But fortunately, Linux, no matter what meaning you give to it, is NOT
> moving towards info for documentation.

Thank God.  My pet peeve about 'info' is that it breaks up into pieces
and forces me to navigate using keystrokes.  Whereas 'manpage' gives me
single document which can be piped to 'less'.

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