On Monday 08 November 2010, Ullrich von Bassewitz wrote: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 04:48:43PM +0200, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote: > > Info pages (and man pages) are usually easier to find. Suppose I > > have to use tool ``xyz`` then it is easy to type ``info xyz`` or > > ``man xyz``. To find the HTML docs for it I have to find out which > > package it is in and where this package placed the "non-standard" > > documentation formats. > > Sorry, I didn't realize that someone is actually using the info > files. I have rarely seen anything more badly designed than info > pages and the tools to read them. The info viewer is a usability > nightmare and comes close to dpkg, which is my all time favorite for > the software with the worst user interface ever. Well I lied a little -- I'm not typing ``info xyz`` on the command line but ``##xyz`` (short hand for ``info:/xyz``) into the URL text field in Konqueror and get the info pages represented as Web pages. That interface is not as bad as ``info`` in the terminal. :-) Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- “Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to *think*.” -- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.
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