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On Freitag 06 Februar 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:17:46 +0100 (CET), Jesús Guerrero wrote: |
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> > Well, in that sense, ALL the man pages of for anything that's more |
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> > complext than ls will be horrible. There's no way to can shorten |
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> > it unless you take features off from bash. It's a very powerful |
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> > shell. |
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> > Same goes for my other example: fvwm. |
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> And for mplayer/mencoder. The problem is that man pages are single pages |
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> and therefore only suitable for fairly short documents. The alternative, |
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> as used by zsh, is to split the information into several man pages, then |
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> you never know which one to look at. procmail is a good example of how to |
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> do this badly, with procmailrc's documentation being split across |
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> three man pages. |
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> That's why info is a much better format for complex or multipurpose |
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> programs. You'd expect to find a list of contents, chapters and an |
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> index in a printed reference book, electronic documentation should be |
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> no different. |
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except that info is horrible. I hate info. If you don't know exactly what you |
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are looking for, you are lost. And you can never sure in which part they hid |
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the information you are looking for. Oh - and the navigation? A nightmare. |
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I prefer man. Even huge manpages. You can easily search them and if you don't |
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know what you are looking for you can glanze them over quickly. |
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I hate info. |
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