Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:50:58 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD Message-ID: <b79ecaef0906050950m53fda524i5652f57b1ac389ad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0906040113270.28607@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090604210006.GA33278@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <b79ecaef0906041417l28e56213lb5dc9c10deed6a32@mail.gmail.com> <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com>
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2009/6/5 Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>: > On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:17:56 pm Chris Rees wrote: > >> Info is horrible to use as a quick reference, because as Polytropon >> said earlier, you can't just dive in to get something specific. The >> info is split into (arbitrary????) sections, through which you have to >> tread, and jump around hyperlinks all over. > > In fairness, a good info browser (eg Emacs) makes searching in an info do= c > trivially easy. =A0I think the biggest problem is that /usr/bin/info is h= orrid > and people lump their impression of it onto their impression of info docs= as a > whole. > -- > Kirk Strauser Is there a 'quick' way to use emacs instead of info? Like info-emacs topic? I've remembered why I hate the info browser so much; it reminds me of the 'help' included with MS-DOS 6.22. Anyone remember that? Chris --=20 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?
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