[Info-vax] Radical command line suggestion

John Reagan xyzzy1959 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 15:55:51 EDT 2015


On Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at 11:56:47 AM UTC-4, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <f26e8302-e3f9-4fd9-bb73-9501fe886115 at googlegroups.com>, johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
> > 
> > man and info may have advantages (vs HELP) as tools for navigation. Maybe
> > HELP needs an update then?
> 
>    man has advantages?  On what planet?  man is the worst thing I've
>    ever used, and is only barely tolerable if the X10 based xman gui
>    is used instead of the terminal window man.
> 
>    How many times did I have to re-rad vast sections of the ksh man
>    page when a lower paragraph pointed to an earlier entity.
> 
>    ARGHHHHHHHH.

Uh, the man on my systems has an emacs-like command set that lets me page forward, page backwards, search for things, etc.



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