From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 04:06:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id EAA23510 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 04:06:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from ravenock.cybercity.dk (ravenock.cybercity.dk [194.16.57.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id EAA23504 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 04:06:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sos@localhost) by ravenock.cybercity.dk (8.8.4/8.7.3) id MAA09203; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:58:45 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199701121158.MAA09203@ravenock.cybercity.dk> Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted! In-Reply-To: from J Wunsch at "Jan 12, 97 11:59:44 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 12:58:44 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..