Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu> | Subject | Re: info format (was Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4) | Date | 06 Aug 1999 12:28:09 -0400 |
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>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Ricketts <tr@oxlug.org> writes: > But perl 5 has a perfectly good set of man pages.
No. Perl is the quintessential example of a program whose manpages are mostly unusable simply because the documentation is too big for the `man' way of accessing it. If `man perl chop' worked, it would be OK, but it doesn't. An indexed and hyperlinked manual is much more valuable for those kinds of applications.
Stefan
PS: the reason why TeXinfo is better than HTML in my world is that it allows better quality printout, and is much quicker to access (maybe it's because my browser is hopelessly more bloated than my info reader, but since my info reader is Emacs, that seems unlikely). Also standard navigation shortcuts like "up" "next" "index" etc... are sorely lacking from HTML.
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