[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[Geoffrey]

Chris Ricker wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Alexander Barton wrote:
> 
> 
>>The GNU folks are fine and all, in their own way. :-) But they refuse to 
>>document their tools in the man pages.  (Where the one God whose name is 
>>Allah intended them to be.)  Instead, they insist on placing all the 
>>documentation for their tools (like /bin/tar) in info.  (Use "ESC ESC [ 
>>B" to scoll down one line.  Why don't the hjkl keys do what I expect?) 
>>The man pages are then left incomplete and out of date usually with a 
>>note at the bottom to see info for the real docs.  Quoth: "...you should 
>>run info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs." 
>>Info mode in _EMACS_!?  Aiee!  Clearly this is the work of the hands of 
>>Satan.
> 
> 
> one word: pinfo
> 
> info pages are actually nice, it's the viewer you're using to read them 
> that's the problem ;-)

OH MY!  That has got to be the best little clue of the year.  Thanks 
muchly Chris.  Wow, what a difference.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey