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Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?
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Hadron Quark |
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Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs? |
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Sat, 16 Dec 2006 20:21:32 +0100 |
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"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> writes:
> Hadron Quark wrote:
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> From: Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:25:55 +0100
>> >>
>> >> Surely the man pages are superior in this instance for a programmer?
>> >
>> > How is the man page superior?
>> >
>>
>> Did you look at the excerpts which came up from the context. For a
>> programmer bringing up the API it is blatantly obvious, in this case,
>> which first stage info is more useful.
>
> The most common reason I have for looking at API docs is to remind me
> of the order of arguments in a function. Mostly I can remember the
> functions purpose. We're all different.
>
Hence the man page is superior :-;
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, (continued)
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Giorgos Keramidas, 2006/12/18
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/18
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Giorgos Keramidas, 2006/12/20
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/20
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/15
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?,
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/16
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/16
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/16
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/18
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/18
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/18
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/18
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/18
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/18
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/18