[TriLUG] Promotions for Installfests

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Thu May 16 18:04:24 EDT 2002


On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 17:48, Jeremy P wrote:

> One of the GNU things that I *absolutely detest* is the movement to remove
> stuff from man pages, and only include documentation in the bloated "info"
> pages.  The GNOME help browser is okay for reading infopages -- IF you
> happen to be in X. There's no way to read the info pages from the command
> line!  (Unless you use emacs or something, which I refuse to do just to
> read some friggin documentation!)

Have you tried just:

info <program>

It works quite well.  It has the key bindings of emacs, but I 
don't believe it actually uses emacs.

Tanner
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