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While I know the basic differences between info and man pages, can you shed some more light on your preference here for the less well informed.
by malandrew 12y ago
While I know the basic differences between info and man pages, can you shed some more light on your preference here for the less well informed.
- asher 12y agoMan pages are more convenient for the typical unix hacker - command-line oriented, vi-using. They are rendered in less, which supports vi-like searching. Info, on the other hand, is one of those odd pre-www hypertext systems. Advanced for its time, it is now clumsy and nonstandard.
- loudmax 12y agoWhat asher said. Man pages are convenient and man works nicely with other Unix command line tools. Info behaves more like a browser and plays by its own rules. Its not that I want to discourage anybody from using their preferred documentation resource. If a developer would rather spend their time writing info pages, that's okay. But at least dump it into a man page. Even an oversized man paged like the one for mplayer is preferable to a pithy page telling me to use info. If I want something with hyperlinks I'll check the web.