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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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Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:56:45 +0100 |
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"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> writes:
> Hadron Quark wrote:
>> "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 :-;
>
> For this particular purpose both contain the same information.
>
> The Man page contains:-
> int printf(const char *format, ...);
> And the Info page:-
> -- Function: int printf (const char *TEMPLATE, ...)
>
No they dont. The man page is the complete man page for printf.
My examples were just the top few lines.
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, (continued)
- 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?, 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, 2006/12/16
- 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?,
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- 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?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/16
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