[marcosdumay]

My impression is that people stopped filling their man pages because the information got into info pages when there was an ongoing campaign to create those (because the format was much more expressible).

And then, the users simply didn't learn how to use info, so developers dropped those and kept only the very short man pages.

[jandrese]

The Info command kind of sucks to use though. It's way more complex than you would expect for a manual viewer. The help screen itself is 300 lines long and full of stuff like:

LFD (select-reference-this-line) Select reference or menu item appearing on this line

The help page talks a ton about xrefs and nodes and references and echo areas and tree searches without ever explaining what any of those things are. The h key as always does nothing.

[bombcar]

info was emacs trying to be a web-browser and it can go die in a fire.

I hated the days of "the man page is blank, see the GNU info documentation" - almost drove me to BSD.

[akira2501]

They're both suited to their individual purposes.

Info pages are like big old clunky manuals with diagrams and schematics and "theory of operation" chapters. Great when you're on the ground doing maintenance.

Man pages are like quick reference handbooks. Great when you're already at 30,000' and just need to keep the plane flying.