Re: [Bug-tar] Re: tar man page

[Benno Schulenberg]

Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> > Sorry, no way.  Man pages are simply searchable with </>string,
> > and then repeated <N>s to find other occurrences.  In info one
> > has to type </> and <Enter> repeatedly, which is majorly
> > awkward.
>
> You can configure info to work any way you want (see below).

!!  How is one supposed to find that?  When searching `info info` 
for "bind" it finds nothing, when searching for "key" there are 
only many mentions of Backspace and Delete, and when searching for 
"conf" there is only one occurrence: confusing.

> > Furthermore, man pages are scrollable by line, whereas info
> > pages are paginated,
>
> As I said, you can easily reconfigure info to work much the same
> way less does. Moreover, its documentation (not a man page, of
> course),

Why "of course"?  Why must one first learn the default key bindings 
before being able to change them to something one knows?  There 
should be a `man infokey`, and `man info` should point to it in a 
"See Also" section.

> contains detailed instructions on how to do so:

It does not contain a full list of all possible key actions, so one 
has to guess at the "search-next" and "search-previous" ones, nor 
does it contain a list of all default bindings, so one can't see 
what the Space bar is bound to nor how it differs from PageDown.

> I don't find anything strange that [down-arrow] stops at the end
> of a logical unit of text.

If only it could be configured not to stop.

Anyway, thanks for pointing to infokey; it's slightly better now.

Benno