• SpicySquid@lemmy.ml
    2·
    9 months ago

    Well… I guess I have been living under a rock. Today is the first time to have heard of info. I have been using man for well over 2 decades now.

    • palordrolap@kbin.social
      1·
      9 months ago

      Surprising you haven’t come across a man page that basically says “We couldn’t be bothered putting everything in here, check out the info page on it instead.”

      I feel like I find myself on one of those every 6 months or so.

      • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
        1·
        8 months ago

        That’s funny, I had the opposite experience. When I found out that info was the GNU projects recommended way of documentation, I was all on board. Then I tried using it, and it couldn’t find most CLI software I used. So I downloaded the texinfo archives… and that still lacked probably 50% of the commands I tried to look up.

        Then I searched up how to get info pages for this or that tool, and someone on StackOverflow had said that it was woefully incomplete and outdated at this point.

        I think I’ll give it another try and report back

  • jsdz@lemmy.ml
    1·
    9 months ago

    The “info” thing was a misguided attempt by a crazed bunch of emacs zealots to usurp the rightful position of “man”. Probably GNU’s worst idea. It persisted in having some popularity for a decade or more but is now mostly forgotten I think. Despite having used Debian for the past ten years straight I’ve only just now found out that info doesn’t even get installed by default any more.

    • Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social
      01·
      9 months ago

      Just because it’s theirs? I figured it would be because of an alleged gender issue, for the same reason some are trying to do away with whitelists/blacklists and the like.