[TriLUG] Promotions for Installfests

[John F Davis]

Hello

I'm with mike on info pages.  I have trouble backtracking in info.  Instead
of just hitting back arrow like in lynx, its sometimes its b for backward,
and p for previous.  (Do they have a u for Up as well?  I can't remember.)

Also, I always use the id-utils on a box, but for the life of me, I haven't
been able to get the id-utils info pages incorporated in the main info
database.  Yes, I've read the docs.  Its supposed to be simple, but I
couldn't get it to insert in the index like its supposed to.  The words
appear there, but selecting the topic doesn't open the actual file.

Man and apropos are your friend.  I'm not so sure about info especially
since I'm way more familiar with VI than Emacs.

JD

Mike Johnson <mike at enoch.org>@trilug.org on 05/17/2002 10:08:36 AM

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Tanner Lovelace [lovelace at wayfarer.org] wrote:

> 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.

Not to start a who'e 'emacs' vs 'vi' battle, but I don't know the emacs
bindings, so 'info' is pretty much unusable for me.  The navigation
makes very little sense.  I'd be happy with lynx being able to be used
to read info files.  I suppose it's gotten to the point that most
newbies are using the GUI displays for info pages, but I simply cannot
use them on an X-less box.

I really don't see the need for info pages.  The OpenBSD man pages are
the best I've ever seen.  I'm not sure why Linux couldn't just stick to
man pages (hrm, STTFMP).

Mike
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