From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Scott A Crosby <crosby@qwes.math.cmu.edu>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Cc: Linux Glibc <glibc-linux@ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu>, Kamil Iskra <kamil@dwd.interkom.pl>, Alex Buell <alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk>, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Info files vs Man pages 
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 22:53:00 -0000
Message-id: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980926003115.30525A-100000@qwe3.math.cmu.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.02.9809251314520.447-100000@neko.binary9.net>
X-SW-Source: 1998-09/msg01389.html

> On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Alex Buell wrote:
> 
>  # I don't care. If the text console version of the info program didn't suck
>  # so badly, I might be thinking better thoughts about info files, but I
>  # don't, so RMS can go suck his left nut for dreaming up such a horrid user
>  # interface. (And yes, I know there are alternatives like tkinfo but
>  # they're x-based)
> 

Huh? If I want to read info files from the console or a tty, I just cat
'em together and pipe to less. In x-windows, I use xemacs.

The nicest thing about info files is that they are essentially straight
text, which means they are emminently viewable in any one of the many
editors that UNIX has. HTML doesn't have this advantage, nor that nice
regex search facilities I enjoy using. Just another advantage of
non-binary human-readable files.

Scott