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bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binar
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation |
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Thu, 11 Sep 2014 01:31:35 +0100 |
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On 09/09/2014 03:52 PM, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:31:35PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> It's useful to many, but I agree most don't bother with it
>> due to the awkward non intuitive default info reader _interface_
>> (though pinfo is a bit better in that regard).
>
> Right. I've heard the argument for 15 years that info docs are really good,
> it's just the interface. :) In all that time, a better interface hasn't
> really caught on, and the web happened.
>
>> Though it would be better to have direct links.
>> Now the above full node URL is too long/awkward, so I've just now setup
>> redirects,
>> so the following proposed new trailers for ls --help and man pages should
>> work:
>>
>> ls --help:
>> ...
>> Full documentation online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls>
>> Full installed documentation: info '(coreutils) ls invocation'
>
> A huge improvement. I suspect that this might also help the info docs show up
> in google, instead of being below the fold. Alternative wording:
>
> Full documentation online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/ls>
> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) ls invocation'
>
> To make it more clear it's the same thing available different ways.
Done in the attached which I'll push later.
thanks,
Pádraig.
online-info.patch
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- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, (continued)
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Michael Stone, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Pádraig Brady, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Michael Stone, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Assaf Gordon, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Pádraig Brady, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Vincent Lefevre, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Bob Proulx, 2014/09/09
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation,
Pádraig Brady <=
- bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: Bug#760861: bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Bernhard Voelker, 2014/09/11
- bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Pádraig Brady, 2014/09/11
bug#18428: coreutils binary breaks coreutils documentation, Bob Proulx, 2014/09/08