On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:19:55PM -0600, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:43:10AM -0600, Joel Schneider wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:59:40AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > my solution when confronted with a man page that says 'see the info > > > > documentation' is to curse the doco author, Stallman, and emacs users in > > > > general, and then go look elsewhere for docs. > > > > > > You mean I'm not the only one who does that? > > > > Wow. Maybe there should be a support group for info-torture victims. > > I also dislike info and wouldn't mind if it were replaced with a more > > widely used hypertext format such as HTML (or maybe DocBook SGML). > > I think you like the contents but dilike info _presentation_ I suppose. > > Texinfo can generate HTML output. Actually, I've also been annoyed by the _contents_ of man pages that have a "SEE ALSO" section that says "The full documentation for xyz is maintained as a Texinfo manual. [...] info xyz should give you access to the complete manual.", then I go look at the info entry and it contains the same information as the man page, only broken up into about 5-10 different sections. Not a stellar "SEE ALSO" recommendation. Thanks info, I really wanted to comb through all that cr*p twice. Joel