[svlug] rant about man pages

[Chris Waters]

Argh, Ray, I hate postfix quoting!  And so does *every* right-minded
netizen! :-)

On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 10:31:40AM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> Look for info2www. Not sure it is what Chris meant, but there is such a
> package in Potato. (My search strategy: "apt-cache search info2".)

> At 10:13 AM 8/26/00 -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:

> >Got a package source for that?  I'm not finding it in my Woody
> >Contents*.

Ray's probably right -- I've been using info for about a dozen years
or so, so I haven't really paid a lot of attention to the
alternatives, except to note that they exist.  For all of info's
warts, it's *much* faster than even text-mode html browsers, and I
will be sad to see it disappear, even though I know I'm a minority
opinion here.

Maybe I'll have to see if I can tweak w3m's keybindings to match
info's (though that won't give me back any speed).  (Nor will it add
the handy concept of a "next node" to *ml.  Don't know what you got
till it's gone.  *sigh*)

(Then again, I probably got spoiled by well-written texinfo in the
early days -- the quality *has* dropped off a lot.  But getting rid of
info still seems like just another step in the dumbing-down of *NIXen.
Makes me wonder if vi really will survive the influx of lazy idiots...) 
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