From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 03:22:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id DAA21275 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 03:22:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id DAA21270 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 03:22:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id MAA14518 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:22:09 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id LAA02531; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:59:45 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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! References: <199701120821.TAA31129@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199701120837.AAA12340@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701120837.AAA12340@paris.CS.Berkeley.EDU>; from Josh MacDonald on Jan 12, 1997 00:37:26 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)