[TriLUG] Promotions for Installfests

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 10:08, Mike Johnson wrote:
> 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).

Well, the whole info versus man pages is an entirely separate issue
from how to view info pages.  I agree, however, that gnu shouldn't
do away with man pages in favor of info.  I personally prefer man
pages over info pages, but that doesn't mean I didn't figure out
how to use the info pages.

Perhaps someone who's familiar with info pages could write an
info browser that acts like a web browser (text based, since I
think there are already gui based ones).  This might make info
pages more accessible to non-emacs people.

Tanner
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