[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[Jim Lynch]

Wow!  I take everything I've always though about info back.  Like 
others, info was the worst designed product ever fostered on the public 
IMHO.  Pinfo is almost intuitive. 

Thanks!

Jim.
Chris Ricker wrote:

>On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Alexander Barton wrote:
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>>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The man pages are then left incomplete and out of date usually with a 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.
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>one word: pinfo
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>info pages are actually nice, it's the viewer you're using to read them 
>that's the problem ;-)
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>later,
>chris
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