From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: quanstro@labs.coraid.com (erik quanstrom)
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:08:07 -0400
Subject: [9fans] info bashing
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> 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