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Subject: Re: new texinfo is busted!
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970112115944.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jan 12, 97 11:59:44 am"
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In reply to J Wunsch who wrote:
> As Josh MacDonald wrote:
> 
> > Third, you should all be reading info files with emacs, not info.  Info
> > is a stupid program and doesn't deserve to exist.  Emacs, however, is not,
> > and the info browser is quite good.
> 
> Unless emacs shrinks to a few hundred kilobyte in size, it _does_
> deserve to exist.  Info(1) can be shipped with the base system, emacs
> cannot.
> 
> Get me right, my emacs runs all day and night, its uptime is usually
> identical to the system uptime.  Nevertheless, there are people who
> don't prefer it as their editor of choice, and the attitude ``use it
> to read the info files or die'' would just cause me to say: to the
> hell with all the info files.  Make them HTML or man pages.  (We
> already sorta rely on HTML, see the FAQ and the handbook.)

AMEN!!, we _dont_ need info files, make the man pages (as god intended
them to be) or at least HTML...

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