Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/08/18/10:16:38
On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Chris Croughton wrote:
> For me it's not "getting started". A large part of the annoyance
> is indeed the user interface - it's a load of obscure keys, half of
> which don't do anything like what I expect
Well, expectation is obviously a matter of personal taste and learning
how to use the tool.
> And searching it is
> a pain - with man|less I just do / and then the RE to search for,
> and it searches the whole thing.
I don't get this one. Doesn't the `s' (for `search') command do this for
you in Info?
> The other real pain I notice is the command-line interface. With man
> I just type
>
> $ man strcpy
>
> and it finds it (occasionally I have to specify the section, as a
> single digit after 'man'), with info it's some arcane set of flags.
Don't get this one, either. I usually type "info gcc" and that's all.
What ``arcane set of flags'' are you talking about?
> (Note: I generally am not a fan of hyperlinked databases. They are
> sometimes useful, but the lack of global search, and having to follow
> links instead of just paging down, and the difficulty of printing them
> as a whole, make them not 'friendly' as far as I'm concerned.
You lost me on these also. ``Lack of global search''? What's wrong with
the `s' command? ``Having to follow links''? If you just press Space
time and again (which should be familiar, since you use `less'), Info
will go through all the sections and subsections in sequence, making a
depth-first search. If you don't like hyperlinks, then don't use them.
> (Sorry, Eli, but I use vi (in fact vim) in preference to emacs.
Why sorry? I don't have any money invested in Emacs, and I don't ask
others to like the tools that I do. If vim is what you like, go ahead
and use it. Gesundheit!
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