info and man

[david thornton]

Walter Dnes wrote:

>On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 12:37:40AM -0400, Paul King wrote
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>>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 /).
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>  Here's an idea of mine for a text game...
>http://www.waltdnes.org/annoyances/infosucks.html
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>  Any programmers around want to take on that challenge?
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I dunno what all the fuss is abut.

Took me a couple of days to learn what I needed to walk around info.

nearly the same amount of time to learn how to get around vi.

I mean gawd, it's a document viewer, how hard does it have to be?

David Thornton

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