Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs

Re:Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs by coldpie on Friday June 21, 2013 @01:35PM (#5919611)

Oh yeah. 'man cp' from my Arch Linux machine:

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SEE ALSO

The full documentation for cp is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and cp programs are properly installed at your site, the command

              info coreutils 'cp invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

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I ran that 'info' command and promptly ran the one emacs command I have memorized: C-x C-c

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Re:Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs by m-r-a-m on Saturday June 22, 2013 @02:30AM (#5922788)

I recently switched to Emacs and started learning it by going through the tutorial (C-h t). Near the end of the tutorial, it refers you to the Emacs manual which uses info (C-h r). After going to the manual I had no idea how to navigate, so I ran the info tutorial (h). I don't really have a point, but I think it's funny that I had to run the a tutorial to get help.

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Re:Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs by kyrias on Saturday June 22, 2013 @07:44AM (#5923267)

Coreutils come from the GNU project so I wouldn't really count it. :p

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Re:Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs by throwaway2048 on Friday June 21, 2013 @04:11PM (#5920692)

the best part is when a man page has an entry like this, and then the info page is a copy of the man page...

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