On Sunday 28 December 2003 8:12 pm, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Sun December 28 2003 07:58 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
'info' is an abomination.
So let's do away with 'info'...
I find the Info format reasonably easy to work with -- easier, in fact, than the alternative, HTML. (Man pages break down for documenting large and complex programs like, say, bash or tar.) You can move continuously through an Info document just by pressing the spacebar. For HTML, you have to switch back and forth between mouse and keyboard (or manipulate the scrollbar); the human factors are most unpleasant. (The problem is that you can't select the Next link easily with the keyboard as far as I know.) But like so many things, it's a matter of personal preference. Paul