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Word. GNU texinfo is so fucking confusing that I only ever invoke it as info --subnodes -o - $PROGRAM | less That dumps the entire manual for $PROGRAM into
by majewsky 9y ago
Word. GNU texinfo is so fucking confusing that I only ever invoke it as
info --subnodes -o - $PROGRAM | less
That dumps the entire manual for $PROGRAM into `less`, where I can then use regex-searches like a normal humanbeing.
- zeveb 9y agoIt's wonderful to use in emacs, and back before I started using emacs ISTR that pinfo was a great way to read info. I used to hate how GNU manpages would point me at the info docs, but honestly nowadays I prefer info. It really is nice — like a pre-CSS, pre-JavaScript HTML, only it can be beautifully typeset too.
- keiyakins 9y agoYeah, I hate info, but the problem is info(1), not the entire texinfo stack. The html output is pretty good and I already know how to navigate it, so I usually use that