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Old 13th July 2008
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Ditto but the fact that I'm not much of an emacs user is probably why;-)


GNU documentation browser working like GNUs primary editor by default makes sense. The file format for creating the documentation for info however is much less painful then groff imho, less barriar to entry for moronic or busy developers I guess.


I personally *hate* writing manual pages as much as I hate using info pages to find documentation. Because of the format in the former case and the user interface of the latter case.

And it only took me the groff manual and source code to a few manual pages on FreeBSD to figure that out when writing one.
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