Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Aug 5, 2007, 09:50 UTC
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- <20070805095052.GF12507@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:03:42AM +0800, Steven Grimm wrote:
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> 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 also find 'info' pages very painful to read. However, if you haven't tried it, the "pinfo" viewer gives a much friendlier (IMHO) interface. It's more or less based on the lynx interface.
http://pinfo.alioth.debian.org/
-Peff