Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:58:44 +0100 (MET) From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! Message-ID: <199701121158.MAA09203@ravenock.cybercity.dk> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112115944.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jan 12, 97 11:59:44 am"
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In reply to J Wunsch who wrote:
> 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.)
AMEN!!, we _dont_ need info files, make the man pages (as god intended
them to be) or at least HTML...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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