[TriLUG] Promotions for Installfests

Chris Knowles knowlesc at telocity.com
Fri May 17 10:27:09 EDT 2002


On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 09:42, Jeremy P wrote:
> On 16 May 2002, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried just:
> > 
> > info <program>
> > 
> > It works quite well.  It has the key bindings of emacs, but I 
> > don't believe it actually uses emacs.
> 
> At one point, "info" was calling emacs with special options, although I
> think they separated it so that info will work even if you don't have
> emacs installed.  At any rate, since I have no idea how to use emacs, I
> can never figure out how to get around in "info" -- and I'm far from a
> newbie.  A newbie can understand the basic pager commands used in
> more/less with man, and shouldn't be required to do anything more just to
> read a manual!
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
Here here!

Every time I've wondered into info pages I've come away very
frustrated.  Though the trick I've learned is to use info:/<topic> in
Konqueror

CJK



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