From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:20:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:20:13 -0400 Received: from mailout05.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.82]:19723 "EHLO mailout05.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 14 May 2001 18:20:02 -0400 Date: 15 May 2001 00:22:00 +0200 From: kaih@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen) To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <80uxnNAmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> In-Reply-To: <86256A49.00800177.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> Subject: Re: Not a typewriter X-Mailer: CrossPoint v3.12d.kh6 R/C435 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding? In-Reply-To: <86256A49.00800177.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> X-No-Junk-Mail: I do not want to get *any* junk mail. Comment: Unsolicited commercial mail will incur an US$100 handling fee per received mail. X-Fix-Your-Modem: +++ATS2=255&WO1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote on 11.05.01 in <86256A49.00800177.00@smtpnotes.altec.com>: > I think man is the best help system ever devised. (The GNU Info system, > however, is the spawn of Satan. :-) Both have good and bad parts. HTML and PDF are yet other such candidates. Something better is needed, but no two people seem to agree on what exactly it should be. What I want: search support at least as good as Info (which is not very, but better than the other two); structure like man; support for both short refcard style and long reference book style treatments; one standard format that can be supported on console, X, or via a Web interface ... oh, and standard key bindings at least don't force people to play at Emacs. MfG Kai