Re: Re: screen maintainer?

David Douthitt <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:33:11 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.screen
Message-ID <4863EEF7.80001__21425.0699071728$1238089018$gmane$org@mailbag.com>
Adam Lazur wrote:
> I agree, 2 sets of documentation sucks.

> The crusty old unix guy inside my head is screaming "DROP THE TEXINFO,
> IT'S EVIL", but the gnu project probably disagrees ;)
>   
I agree on both counts.  I put the man page into my book, and printed a 
version of the Info documentation.  The info documentation is not 
readable in printed form, in my opinion.  Most of it seems to read like 
a reference manual (here's the list of X in alphabetical form) rather 
than a tutorial or introduction (here's how you do X).

I think screen has an excellent man page; despite being two different 
docs I think I'd rather keep it and expand on it.  Most GNU man pages 
are bad and tell the user to go read the info documentation.