From: quanstro@labs.coraid.com (erik quanstrom)
Subject: [9fans] info bashing
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:08:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fb2cd7b7d620f28a22dde56870c922aa@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <859eafd17bd9a037fb5c4a18ae3675fb@gandalf.orthanc.ca>
> In fairness to info, you have to consider its history. The want was
> to be able to present an online edition of some large documents (the
> emacs documentation), with cross-references, search capabilities,
> index lookups, etc. This was long before the web was even a glimmer
> in anyone's eye. In that regard, it was a spectacular success. Being
> able to jump around a 400+page document in real time on a VT100
> plugged into a Sun 3/50 workstation is a testament to that.
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.
it's like instead of taking a bath, you buy a monster air filter,
so no one will notice the stench.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-25 19:08 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 [this message]
2011-03-25 19:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2011-03-25 19:21 ` erik quanstrom
2011-03-25 16:48 ` [9fans] troff macros for typesetting books/longer texts Bakul Shah
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