[rescue] info trumps man

der Mouse mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA
Thu Jan 19 23:18:30 CST 2006


> Every time I try to look up anything using info, I end up getting
> lost in a maze of cryptic sub-modes and ctrl-meta-shift-X alt-meta-F2
> commands, unable to get out, and resorting to a 'pkill info' from
> another xterm.

I've found that I can usually just use less on the .texi files; while
you need to understand the markup by hand, it's not been hard in the
cases I've dealt with.

/~\ The ASCII				der Mouse
\ / Ribbon Campaign
 X  Against HTML	       mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca
/ \ Email!	     7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39  4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B



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