From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 09:50:52 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4
Message-ID: <20070805095052.GF12507@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <46B4A35E.5040601@midwinter.com>

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:03:42AM +0800, Steven Grimm wrote:

> 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