[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[kaboom at oobleck.net (Chris Ricker)]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Alexander Barton wrote:

> The GNU folks are fine and all, in their own way. :-) But they refuse to 
> document their tools in the man pages.  (Where the one God whose name is 
> Allah intended them to be.)  Instead, they insist on placing all the 
> documentation for their tools (like /bin/tar) in info.  (Use "ESC ESC [ 
> B" to scoll down one line.  Why don't the hjkl keys do what I expect?) 
> The man pages are then left incomplete and out of date usually with a 
> note at the bottom to see info for the real docs.  Quoth: "...you should 
> run info and read the tar info pages, or use the info mode in emacs." 
> Info mode in _EMACS_!?  Aiee!  Clearly this is the work of the hands of 
> Satan.

one word: pinfo

info pages are actually nice, it's the viewer you're using to read them 
that's the problem ;-)

later,
chris