info and man

Chris F.A. Johnson cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org
Wed May 24 21:45:17 UTC 2006


On Wed, 24 May 2006, William Park wrote:

> 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'.

    Which you navigate using keystrokes.

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