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Info pages are so much nicer than man pages: they have links between pages, organization and a much nicer viewer.
by fiddlerwoaroof 3y ago
Info pages are so much nicer than man pages: they have links between pages, organization and a much nicer viewer.
- oneshtein 3y agoIt's much easier to search man pages for information. /foo<enter> For quick search for an option or argument, man is better than info. For in depth documentation, info is better. Usually, a man page is a brief summary of program documentation.
- fiddlerwoaroof 3y agoThis works for me and it searches the whole info manual. But, I do agree that there’s a trade off here between in-depth documentation and easy to scan docs. You can also sometimes do something like “info zsh …” to jump directly to a sub-page and, at least in zsh, tab completion works for these sub pages.