Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:59:44 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112115944.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701120837.AAA12340@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>; from Josh MacDonald on Jan 12, 1997 00:37:26 -0800 References: <199701120821.TAA31129@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199701120837.AAA12340@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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As Josh MacDonald wrote: > Third, you should all be reading info files with emacs, not info. Info > is a stupid program and doesn't deserve to exist. Emacs, however, is not, > and the info browser is quite good. Unless emacs shrinks to a few hundred kilobyte in size, it _does_ deserve to exist. Info(1) can be shipped with the base system, emacs cannot. Get me right, my emacs runs all day and night, its uptime is usually identical to the system uptime. Nevertheless, there are people who don't prefer it as their editor of choice, and the attitude ``use it to read the info files or die'' would just cause me to say: to the hell with all the info files. Make them HTML or man pages. (We already sorta rely on HTML, see the FAQ and the handbook.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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