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Re: indentation, setting variables, commands, and M-x


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: indentation, setting variables, commands, and M-x
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:52:25 +0200

> From: "John M. Gabriele" <john_sips_teaz@yahooz.com>
> Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 22:46:35 -0500
> 
> It's interesting how similar the info program
> works compared to something like lynx (that is, if your docs were just
> in html, and you used a text-mode html browser to access them). The main
> difference I'm seeing right now is, that info nodes have an order to them
> (you can hit 'n' for next, 'p' for previous) as well as having links
> ("menus" and "cross-references"), whereas html has only links.

The other (more important, IMHO) difference is that Info can search
via the index (the `i' command), which is much more efficient way of
finding things quickly, i.e. using a manual like a reference.




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