From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Sep 7 12:23:17 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE859CC51A for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2015 12:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 516AA121B for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2015 12:23:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wam@hiwaay.net) Received: from kabini1.local (dynamic-216-186-222-143.knology.net [216.186.222.143] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id t87CNFnc016582 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 7 Sep 2015 07:23:15 -0500 Subject: Re: GCC question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <55EAEE19.2060807@hiwaay.net> <55EAF922.2020906@hiwaay.net> <55EC25FE.4070802@ShaneWare.Biz> <55EC501E.10403@hiwaay.net> <441tebcrzw.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <50324.13908.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> From: "William A. Mahaffey III" Message-ID: <55ED81B2.7050406@hiwaay.net> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2015 07:28:44 -0453.75 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <50324.13908.bm@smtp111.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2015 12:23:17 -0000 On 09/07/15 02:30, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Lowell Gilbert: > >> The full form of the documentation is in an info file. Type "info gcc" >> to get it. If you use emacs, you'll find its info browser is better than >> the command line version. In fact, if you don't use emacs, you might be >> best off with an online version, such as from >> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/ > There is a port, misc/pinfo, that I find helpful for reading an info file in the absence of KDE and Konqueror that I had years back with Linux Slackware. > > Otherwise, I find info user-hostile, plain text would be better. Many times, I went through an info file as straight text with "less" and found that better than info. > > Tom I definitely 2nd that motion, I do *NOT* like info at all, man pages are my preference (or plain text, or *maybe* HTML), or else decently formatted online help from the CLI, i.e. 'gcc -h ' or 'gcc --help ' .... A little more effort for the developer, but *FAR* preferable to info for me. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.