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On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Philip Hudson wrote:
You're not interested in the topic, you have nothing to add to it, yet you post discouraging others from exploring.
I don't see how posting my opinion should discourage others. It seems to hav encouraged you to get on your soap box and waste time posting many many paragraphs...
You'll be telling me I ought to be using emacs and program in lithp next.
For those who are unaware of the difference, 'info' gives you rich hypertext tree-structured cross-referenced indexed documentation with menus leading to sub-nodes and navigation history as well as sequential and hierarchical navigation, powerful and flexible search, plus online meta-help and an excellent tutorial in 'info info', all presented by a powerful and featureful engine, much smarter than 'man'. Now don't you wish someone had told you about *that* instead of 'man' on Day 1?
Day 1 of Unix was over 33 years ago for me now. No, I don't wish I had 'info' back then. I was happy with ed and printed manual pages. (Main disk was only 3MB )-:
But, OTOH, 'man' is sufficient for Gordon, who therefore (?) "hates" info.
If you say so. I didn't say that. You're inferring it. I hate info for other reasons.
Info source files are marked up using a TeX dialect called Texinfo (file extension: .texi). Man source files are marked up using *roff macros, which provide only rudimentary linking. In reality, of course, both forms of documentation persist because they serve different purposes, needs and contexts. The savvy unix user knows and uses both constantly. Knowingly to cut yourself off from a source of information about your working environment, completely, for no benefit, under no compulsion, and for no gain, because you "hate" info, is very foolish and not what someone of your standing in this group should be recommending (or doing, but that's your business), Gordon.
Gosh - you've gone all righteous recently. But really, I don't care.Want a recommendation? I recommend people use VIM, and program in BASIC. (well they earn me money, so it works for me ;-)
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