info and man

Wed May 24 22:11:04 UTC 2006

On 5/24/06, Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

No, no, no!  You navigate 'less' using... um...  well...  ah...  keystrokes...

Oh, the horror...
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Oddly enough, this is completely standard behaviour for shells. This
is a roundabout way of saying `don't use combined chains of `&&'s and
`||'s unless you think Gödel's theorem is for sissies'.
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