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From: quanstro@labs.coraid.com (erik quanstrom)
Subject: [9fans] info bashing
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:21:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f82607809bf754d2ee89917127e657e6@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60a011b1516d03c3b75bdefd82418045@gandalf.orthanc.ca>

On Fri Mar 25 15:15:59 EDT 2011, lyndon at orthanc.ca wrote:
> > i take this as another strike against info.  the fact that one
> > sees that the editor's docs are 400+ pages, and there's no easy
> > way to cut that down to a man page, and yet they proceeded to
> > build bloatware to accomidate bloatware.
> 
> That's like blaming Mozilla because you choose to read Sarah Palin's
> missives with Firefox.

your defense of info was that it was built to be
read a 400+ page reference for emacs.  my claim is
that if you find a reasonable editor, you won't have
a need for info.

- erik



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25 19:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-24  6:18 [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts Allan Heim
2011-03-24 13:16 ` hiro
2011-03-24 13:55   ` Gabriel Diaz
2011-03-25 11:50     ` Aharon Robbins
2011-03-25 12:25       ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 12:37         ` Lucio De Re
2011-03-25 15:10         ` pmarin
2011-03-25 15:23           ` dexen deVries
2011-03-25 15:32           ` John Floren
2011-03-25 15:41             ` John Floren
2011-03-25 20:21             ` Michael Kerpan
2011-03-25 18:56           ` [9fans] info bashing Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-25 19:08             ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 19:14               ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-25 19:21                 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-03-25 16:48         ` [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts Bakul Shah

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