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Way back when, the emacs-ish interface that info uses by default was very jarring, especially since I had been using vim forever. `pinfo` was a browser that su
by jasonjayr 3y ago
Way back when, the emacs-ish interface that info uses by default was very jarring, especially since I had been using vim forever.
`pinfo` was a browser that supported browsing like elinks, and the keybindings were similar enough that I could effectively navigate it when needed.
However, IMHO, as nice and organized as the info pages were, every modern console I found myself using, when in the terminal, when I needed to use man or info, I really just wanted a a summary of all the command line options, that I could grep on, in one big list. info pages tended to offer logical subsections, that required more interaction + more careful reading to get to the piece of info you were after, which ended up using more time to plow through to a solution.
- klodolph 3y agoIMO, if you’re just interested in grepping through options, info is better at that, compared to man. I feel like I’m fighting against man when I look at the man page for SoX or rsync. I find some --option listed in the option list, but I want to see more details about how it works—but when I grep for --option, I have to scroll past 20 or 30 references to --option like, “--something is similar to --option except X, Y, Z”. It’s a complete slog just looking up an option. In info, I can find this information a lot faster.