From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 5 16:51:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC5DC106564A for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A028FC0A for ; Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:51:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so1227703fxm.43 for ; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:51:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Roypc0LuA2L/m3AqJ5Ziq+ppUTYYiiUN85qy/OuYHMQ=; b=pokM/N1CPdu3/lfmG0T9i8NLhQcg1FaZgZai/R2OScDvvN/2h1ZolArRXG/Lu9Iva3 x5yT2/rg/K1HTHaDvlmBLb0VoPbxt5C2G30ZN30ktGE4iAa2/lwTeExsWmn63N1JoW/c 8RPXkNXd0jslbebVrgxVe6kGnB00oryj2/3bY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f77asrUiYFUHu1K8YwPqYnhQU//NxQk/Q2fuOYCbvhavLIDieFhWgmPeMDT8hLwwXy 7Wnhtzt8ghsCvH4Sr5eyhu1clyMVbG5eT0xz9bgAmnr9SS25gFdsWBIUUAoqCNcFWo6p Gpl37hJSqBMPpmuFDGOHYdAZ2AhZTzdo2tVqc= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.63.8 with SMTP id z8mr3382080bkh.55.1244220678346; Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:51:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> References: <20090604210006.GA33278@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com> From: Chris Rees Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:50:58 +0100 Message-ID: To: Kirk Strauser , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:51:20 -0000 2009/6/5 Kirk Strauser : > 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?