Re:OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)
by thom on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:38AM
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You can search a whole info file just as quickly as a man page, and using the index you can jump to the canonical docs for any argument or command in one go (ever spent time trying to find the hyphen-character section of a man page but struggled because it's referenced in 10 places?). I'll admit that whenever in man or info, I will generally go straight to the examples section because that's just how my brain works, but at that point I appreciate that info files aren't stingy with detail.
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> You can search a whole info file just as quickly as a man page
It's possible that I just don't know how to use info. I always end up in the wrong place. That does not happen with man.
> and using the index you can jump to the canonical docs for any argument or command in one go
How?
> (ever spent time trying to find the hyphen-character section of a man page but struggled because it's referenced in 10 places?)
No, because the options are indented and inserting a few spaces before the hyphen in search string eliminates virtually all in-text references. Conventionally, the options are alpha-sorted too. In info pages, I end up wondering which section the option I want might be covered in.