From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Better Help Docs Searching?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 18:29:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YRKpcqBBZvkRwtc5@isis.sigpipe.cz> (raw)
# stephane@chazelas.org / 2021-08-01 17:33:14 +0100:
> 2021-08-01 18:21:14 +0200, Mikael Magnusson:
> > info version also probably has them, but I'm not sure if anyone knows
> > how to navigate an info document.
> Press "h" within "info" to get started with it.
>
> It's really astonishing that so few people know about it after
> so many decades it's been around.
there's roughly zero people who were ever unable to figure out how to
scroll a man page or how to quit the pager, while info (the software)
is hellbent to please people who have no need to leave emacs.
i decided to give info a real chance a few weeks ago, zsh man pages
are too much for a pager. i spent one friday night writing ~/.infokey
to make info palatable to me (ended up with 168 lines).
that thing segfaulted five times in as many hours, C-q behavior was
"drop dead immediately" *in some contexts* no matter what i had
configured, and incremental search forgets the pattern after landing
on the first match, rendering C-x C-n (just 'n' for me) useless.
info makes it really hard for me to like it.
and this is not satire:
https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Info-Format-FAQ.html
--
roman
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