From: Steven Grimm <koreth@midwinter•com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
Cc: "Sam Ravnborg" <sam@ravnborg•org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>,
"Ismail Dönmez" <ismail@pardus•org.tr>,
git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:03:42 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46B4A35E.5040601@midwinter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85zm17h4pn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
David Kastrup wrote:
> A system such as info, in contrast, is hierarchical, and organized
> with indexes and cross references making it much easier to find
> things.
Really? I find info a huge pain in the butt most of the time. I can't
just do a simple text search for the information I want in the relevant
manpage; I have to go navigating around to the appropriate subsection
(and that's assuming I know where it is) and am forced to use the
emacs-style pager whether I like it or not (not a big emacs fan here).
It always ticks me off when I go to read the manpage for some command
and it tells me to go read the info page if I want complete documentation.
I would definitely not want to move to a documentation system that
prevented me from typing "man git-commit" to get a list of all the
command line options for that command.
However, that said, I have no objection to an alternate view of the same
information that's organized differently.
Am I alone in my dislike of info, I wonder?
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-04 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-04 0:28 [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4 Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04 0:41 ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-08-04 1:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04 1:48 ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-08-04 3:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04 13:26 ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-08-04 3:49 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-04 4:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04 4:57 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-08-04 5:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-08-04 5:52 ` Daniel Barkalow
2007-08-04 6:11 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-04 6:17 ` Doug Maxey
2007-08-04 9:12 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-08-04 10:55 ` Steven Grimm
2007-08-04 12:19 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 16:03 ` Steven Grimm [this message]
2007-08-04 16:08 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-04 16:27 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 9:50 ` Jeff King
2007-08-04 16:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-04 17:49 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-04 19:55 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 21:27 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-05 4:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 7:51 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 17:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 18:08 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 18:35 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-05 19:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 19:06 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 20:32 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 19:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-08-05 21:43 ` Bruce Korb
2007-08-05 22:15 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 22:31 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-08 8:11 ` Man-pages in user manual (was: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4) David Kastrup
2007-08-05 23:38 ` [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4 Junio C Hamano
2007-08-06 0:13 ` Miles Bader
2007-08-06 5:44 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 9:42 ` Jeff King
2007-08-05 9:54 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 9:59 ` Jeff King
2007-08-05 10:20 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 10:22 ` Jeff King
2007-08-05 10:40 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-05 11:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 11:38 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-04 14:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-08-04 7:30 ` David Kastrup
2007-08-04 10:39 ` Timo Hirvonen
2007-08-04 11:46 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-04 12:51 ` Timo Hirvonen
2007-08-04 15:19 ` Michael
2007-08-04 13:11 ` Robin Rosenberg
2007-08-04 13:42 ` Julian Phillips
2007-08-07 12:11 ` David Kågedal
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