[PLUG] Online copies of textinfo content available?

Richard Owlett rowlett at cloud85.net
Sun Oct 28 12:35:11 UTC 2018


On 10/28/2018 12:48 AM, Russell Senior wrote:
> You mean something like this?
> 
>    https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html

No cigar. <chuckle &/or groan>
For "ed" that would more than the required content.
The _apparent_ purpose is to remind an competent user of options.
A good "info" would guide a new/infrequent user in how he might 
typically use it.

> 
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 8:51 AM Richard Owlett <rowlett at cloud85.net> wrote:
> 
>> *Are online copies of textinfo content available?*
>>
>> Many man pages end with:
>>> The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
>> info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the command
>>>
>>>      info XYZ
>>>
>>> should give you access to the complete manual.
>>
>> I have problems with that.
>> 1. *I don't want to install unneeded packages just to find out*
>>      *whether or not the package _might_ be useful.*
>> 2. The info output has an annoying format. A browser acceptable format
>>      {plain text fine --  HTML *NOT* needed} is MUCH more functional.
>>
>>
>> I posted this question to debian-user at lists.debian.org .
>> The replies totally ignored my primary question and reason I asked
>> [emphasized in this copy].
>>
>> Side question:
>> Could I have made any clearer what information I was looking for?
>> TIA
>>
> 
> You might have included a prefatory remark like this: "I used the likely
> keywords, x, y, and z, in a google search and I couldn't manage to find it"
> and then not needed to be clear at all in your query, because no query
> would be needed.
> 
> 




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