[OT]Re: Linux 2.2.11pre4

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 18:39:48 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Why? The obvious solution has always appeared to be to just get rid of
> info files.
>
> The "info" interface makes sense only to people who grok GNU emacs, and if
> you actually want to be user-friendly you either use "man" (because that's
> how everything else is documented and then you could actually just tell
> people to use man everywhere) or you use HTML (because that's a _useful_
> format that even non-emacsheads can understand).

In principle info began as macropackage for TECO. I wonder if the
original thing will grok the GNU info format... Hmm... Time to look on MIT
FTP sites... At least TECO is less evil than EMACS.

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