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I find GNU info more useful than man pages as documentation for those who are learning how to use a program. The documentation is structured and hyperlinked in
by catnaroek 11y ago
I find GNU info more useful than man pages as documentation for those who are learning how to use a program. The documentation is structured and hyperlinked in a very convenient way. On the other hand, the terseness of man pages is more convenient for those who already mostly know the program, but need a reminder of minor details like the exact command line flag to enable a specific program option.
- bpchaps 11y agoAgreed, but unfortunately info is used so infrequently that I don't even bother with it these days.
- jandrese 11y ago95% of the time when I'm opening a manpage I am looking for a particular command line option or syntax. With man pages I just hit / and then a relevant keyword and it jumps to the right section. With info pages I have to grok which section it might be in, then remember what arcane ctrl sequence follows links and then what sequence searches in the document then which sequence goes back because I guessed wrong. I find manpages to be much more convienent, even though they are less structured.