On Sat Sep 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM UTC, Pádraig Brady wrote:

On 20/09/2025 17:55, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

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I know.  However, many users don't enjoy the info docs.

I my experience user don't enjoy the info _reader_, while the docs are fine.

And that is all it takes to kill the value.

Perhaps I am unusual, but I typically only pull up documentation when I am deep
into a problem and need a specific answer. My brain is already full of problem
details and I have little left for an interface that requires more than a token
amount of navigation effort.

Man pages are great this way. Like any documentation, they almost never contain
_exactly_ what I need, but they are good enough, and navigation is trivial.

Anytime I hit the bottom of a man page and there is a reference to additional
detail in an info page, my next step is a search engine.

..Ch:W..