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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:50:58 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com>
To:        Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD
Message-ID:  <b79ecaef0906050950m53fda524i5652f57b1ac389ad@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200906050924.23167.kirk@strauser.com>
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2009/6/5 Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com>:
> On Thursday 04 June 2009 04:17:56 pm Chris Rees wrote:
>
>> Info is horrible to use as a quick reference, because as Polytropon
>> said earlier, you can't just dive in to get something specific. The
>> info is split into (arbitrary????) sections, through which you have to
>> tread, and jump around hyperlinks all over.
>
> In fairness, a good info browser (eg Emacs) makes searching in an info do=
c
> trivially easy. =A0I think the biggest problem is that /usr/bin/info is h=
orrid
> and people lump their impression of it onto their impression of info docs=
 as a
> whole.
> --
> Kirk Strauser

Is there a 'quick' way to use emacs instead of info? Like info-emacs topic?

I've remembered why I hate the info browser so much; it reminds me of
the 'help' included with MS-DOS 6.22. Anyone remember that?

Chris



--=20
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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