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by klodolph 905 days ago
You can use a web browser for the info pages, and you get some reasonable HTML when you export this.

I don’t see justification for saying that info is klunky. “I haven’t learned to use it” is valid, “I don’t want to learn another thing” is valid, but all the functionality that you want is right there at your fingertips. It’s not klunky just because it’s not exactly the same as your pager. And if you just want to use your pager, you can pipe info to your pager, you just lose the hyperlinks. Or you can keep the hyperlinks and use the web browser.

Unix man pages are excellent but most parts of Unix are small enough that the docs fit in man pages. Say what you will about the “Unix philosophy”, but the Unix reality is that we use a lot of programs where the docs are too large to fit reasonably into a man page. GCC, Bash, Make, Bison, Flex, etc. Some of these tools are heading the way of the dodo.