From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8849 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2005 22:38:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 8837 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2005 22:38:42 -0000 Received: from mailgw.cs.york.ac.uk (HELO mailgw.cs.york.ac.uk) (144.32.40.3) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:38:42 +0000 Received: from minster.cs.york.ac.uk ([144.32.40.2]) by mailgw.cs.york.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1Ds6sG-0007Hu-0M; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:35:40 +0100 Received: from bushfire.cs.york.ac.uk ([144.32.40.24] helo=[192.168.112.229]) by minster.cs.york.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.44) id 1Ds6sF-00030y-VL; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 23:35:40 +0100 Message-ID: <42D2F438.3080600@cs.york.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 22:38:00 -0000 From: chris jefferson User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriel Dos Reis CC: Daniel Berlin , Nicholas Nethercote , rthorpe@realworldtech.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Some notes on the Wiki References: <0eca48d3d0944725845e0a180be69259@realworldtech.com> <1121113678.7631.6.camel@linux-009002219143.watson.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00468.txt.bz2 Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: >Daniel Berlin writes: > >| On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: >| >| > On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Daniel Berlin wrote: >| > >| >>> Also, a web-browser is much slower than an info-browser, >| >>> especially when doing searchs. >| >> You must be close to the only user i've met who uses the info >| >> browser :) >| > >| > I use it. Info pages suck in many ways, but they're fast to load >| > from an xterm, fast to search, and even faster when you know where >| > they are in the docs (eg. I find myself looking at the GCC C >| > extensions quite often, and I can get there very quickly). >| >| Most people i've met can't undertand the commands for info (pinfo is >| nicer in this regard). > >maybe the conclusion to draw is that you've met some special people in >a small part of the community. > > > I just had a quick quiz in the C++ IRC channel I was in, and very few people there like info, and very few are comfortable using it. There was a general agreement HTML, PDF and docbook are the best ways to recieve documentation. Chris