[Python-Dev] Re: reading info files (original) (raw)

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 23:14:24 +0200

On dinsdag, april 16, 2002, at 07:27 , Fran=E7ois Pinard wrote:

One has to remember the words Prev, Next and Up. These are=20 even written at the top of each Info page. And whenever you see Menu, then=20 Menu as well. Add SPC to move forward, and Quit. One does not really need=20 anything more. You might then enjoy Search and other goodies, if adventurous=20 enough. :-)

The problem I always have with info files is the navigation if=20 you want to do more than prev/next/up. Plus the often deeply=20 nested structure that you can't break out of (which is why you=20 want more navigation commands). A book is nice: TOC, chapters,=20 index. A good manpage is nice: a 1-3 page document on a single=20 command. Info with its deep structure that it won't reveal to=20 you is cumbersome. And you can't even print it to read it=20 offline (at least: I always end up with an unstructured mess of=20 ASCII lines).