On Feb 26, 2011, at 11:49 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I'd like to get rid of info! Either man or HTML is much better, even plain
text is preferable to info.
It may help to understand that info documentation was chosen as an alternative to roff
macros by RMS and the GNU project since it provided better indexing and cross-linking.
This was long before the web existed or folks processing manpages (ie, the "See
also" section) into HTML documents with working hyperlinks.
From that central point, two major consequences should be noted:
1) Info docs were designed to be written and read in emacs; info is a
stand-alone reader program which uses emacs-like keybindings. If you get
emacs, you should be fine in info. If you don't understand emacs, well, info
is likely to be obscure also.
2) All GNU software uses info as the primary means of documentation.