• SpicySquid@lemmy.ml
    28·
    2 years ago

    Well… I guess I have been living under a rock. Today is the first time to have heard of info. I have been using man for well over 2 decades now.

  • jsdz@lemmy.ml
    134·
    2 years ago

    The “info” thing was a misguided attempt by a crazed bunch of emacs zealots to usurp the rightful position of “man”. Probably GNU’s worst idea. It persisted in having some popularity for a decade or more but is now mostly forgotten I think. Despite having used Debian for the past ten years straight I’ve only just now found out that info doesn’t even get installed by default any more.

    • folkrav@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      I since switched to tldr (for the offline/caching functionality, I think?), but for the longest time I just used a wrapper function that did exactly this in my shell configuration. Something a bit like this:

      function cheatsh() { 
    curl cheat.sh/"\$1" 
}