[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Thu Oct 6 20:03:50 EDT 2005
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The man pages are then left incomplete and out of date usually with a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 ;-)
alias info=pinfo :)
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Until later, Geoffrey
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