From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 96 02:27:00 UTC 0000
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Subject: Re: A more readable faq???

Reply to message 4202237    from ORLY AT GIBSON DOT E on 06/13/96  9:02PM


>Actually, I have another gripe about Info... (maybe it's just the lazy
>ranting of a malcontent). Info isn't particularly fast. Not to mention I
>haven't mastered the arcana of moving through nodes with the thing.. is
>there mouse support, anyway? One thing about Emacs on X Window systems is
>that there is mouse support..

If you are having trouble moving through info, try the online tutorial
by pressing 'h' from anywhere inside.  As for speed, the only real problem
is the time it takes to load the files themselves, and there's not much
anyone can do about that.  As for searching, it doesn't run as fast as
grep, but what does?  ;)

>Actually, I don't totally buy the FSF's idea that man pages are obsolete..
>if I want to get the syntax of a C library function, I'd rather do a "man
>select" than wade through multi-megabytes of Info file to find it..

info libc alpha select

Same thing, but once you're thereyou can x-ref and move up and down
and back and forth and everything.  Do you really enjoy paging through a
long manpage only to miss something and have to page back up, then
type man all over again to go look at something else?  I ended up
printing out all the manpages I needed because it took too much effort
to slog through them every time.  :)  Heck, if you're really nuts about
a simple 'man <function>' command, just use doskey to alias 'man <foo>'
to 'info libc alpha <foo>'.  Works like a charm.

John