Thread (37 messages) 37 messages, 10 authors, 2025-10-02

Re: Move GNU manual pages to the Linux man-pages project

From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-09-20 21:11:01

Hi Jakub,

On Sat, Sep 20, 2025 at 07:42:49PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
* Pádraig Brady [off-list ref], 2025-09-20 18:01:
quoted
I my experience user don't enjoy the info _reader_, while the docs are
fine.
If you've been avoiding info docs because of the horrors of the info(1) user
interface (like I had been doing for 20 years or so), you should give
https://github.com/jwilk/informan a try.
Hmm, I'll try!  How does it compare to piping to less as this?:

	$ info libc | less;

BTW, to someone who doesn't know perl, how do I install the File::Which
module?

	$ ./informan libc;
	Can't locate File/Which.pm in @INC (you may need to install the File::Which module) (@INC entries checked: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.40.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.40 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.40 /usr/share/perl/5.40 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at ./informan line 20.
	BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./informan line 20.

apt-file(1) didn't help:

	$ apt-file find Find::Which;
	$


Have a lovely night!
Alex

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