[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Christopher Fowler)]

On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 18:35, Chris Ricker wrote:
> 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 The man pages are then left incomplete and out of date usually with a 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
> 

WOW!  pinfo is cool.  I hated info because of the problems mentioned 
above and believe that man is where all docs should be.  At least
pinfo makes things bearable.