[Discuss] Gnome Shell

Matthew Gillen me at mattgillen.net
Thu Jun 28 14:16:50 EDT 2012


On 06/28/2012 01:51 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:35:05AM -0400, Matthew Gillen wrote:
>> Put "man:pthread" or "man:signal" or "info:bash" in the address bar.
>> Far and away the only tolerable way I've found to navigate info pages.
> 
> My personal favorite (suggested by someone else on this list a few
> years ago, if memory serves) is "info foo |less"

For that to work, you have to already know the content of that info page
pretty well (i.e. know the exact term to tell 'less' to search for).  If
you come in with little a-priori knowledge of the command you're looking
up, the navigation helps immensely, and you lose that with 'less'.

Matt





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