Re: Two New Software-Related Ideas

On 25/10/06, Shlomi Fish <shlomif-ik1l9ssToec+JF/[email protected]> wrote:
> One problem Nadav once mentioned with the info pages, is that they are split
> into several sections and sub-sections and so one cannot search them for a
> keyword as conveniently as one can using a man page.
>
``info foo | less`` gives you the whole manual in one document.  But
this loses hyperlinks and gains nothing.

As amit says, `Ctrl-S` and `/` work accross sections in the standalone
`info` reader.  `i` searches the index which is usually high-quality.

> >
> > 3) The major problem is that the standard browser (info info -
> > contains a tutorial), is very emacs-ish, which, while immediate and
> > intuitive to some of us, is intimidating to others.
>
> I could never get the hang of the "info" command line. :-)
>
`pinfo` is friendlier but less powerful.  Browser access (e.g. dwww)
is probably your best option today.

> >
> > Debian provides a nice set of tools, which should let you read all
> > docs (man, info and html-docs) of installed packages using your web
> > browser ( I think most packages do register themself using doc-base) .
> >  I believe the 3 alternatives are "dwww","doc-central" and "dhelp"
> > (each having different set of capabilities and different requirements
> > - e.g. dhelp does not require a webserver)
> >  This is all I can say right now - since I did not yet try any of the 3.
>
> Interesting. I suppose it uses texinfo2html and man2html. Not precisely the
> level of integration that I'm looking for.
>
What's missing?

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <[email protected]> (I read email only on weekends)


 
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