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From: Richard Kettlewell on 25 May 2010 06:25 Richard Kettlewell <rjk(a)greenend.org.uk> writes: > Martin Gregorie <martin(a)address-in-sig.invalid> writes: >> info is an abomination - why can't full summary informmation be in the >> manpage and the rest on a set of web pages where it belongs. In this >> case the sort manpage is severely deficient because doesn't so much as >> hint that there may be a an ability to list a set of keys with >> different sort orders and collation sequences? >> >> Nor, for that matter, is it clear that there is an info entry. > > In this particular case, 'info sort' on a Debian stable system just > reproduces the man page; you have to use 'info coreutils' and follow > your nose from there. > > It works better in unstable, admittedly. Another reason to hate info. Here's a fragment of what C-h i shows me: * Emacs The extensible self-documenting text editor. * Emacs The extensible self-documenting text editor. * Emacs The extensible self-documenting text editor. So which is Emacs 22, which is Emacs 23.1 and which is Emacs 23.2? Even Emacs can't get Info right! -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/
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