[svlug] rant about man pages

[Breen Mullins]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Erik Steffl wrote:

> Rich Bodo wrote:
> > But just phasing out concise documentation altogether?  That sucks.
> > Who's the rocket scientist that made that move?
> 
>   must have been a comittee:-)
> 
>   seriously, I have never heard any reasoning about why are manpages
> deprecated in gnu world. or is the info considered a good enough
> replacement?

It may not be any more complicated than "because RMS prefers info".

Hmm...info or manpages?  emacs or vi?

Breen
(manpages and vi)

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