From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Quark Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs? Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:56:45 +0100 Message-ID: <7d56hbbw2.fsf@gmail.com> References: <458268D7.6020203@163.com> <1166191335.058714.266970@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> <1166206305.278573.25520@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <1166438641.220766.75180@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166469599 1196 80.91.229.2 (18 Dec 2006 19:19:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:19:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 18 20:19:56 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwIkS-0006Dy-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:41:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwIkP-0003cw-BB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:41:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Trace: individual.net uOJla2Cep2Uq1ifldgtrqg13nJbcPjaKpsU7EXHBIABOflz6eM X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:EdIBYlTUVtKaFJACh2At7ls3CYY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144084 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39699 Archived-At: "Robert Thorpe" writes: > Hadron Quark wrote: >> "Robert Thorpe" writes: >> > Hadron Quark wrote: >> >> Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> >> >> >> From: Hadron Quark >> >> >> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:25:55 +0100 >> >> >> >> >> >> Surely the man pages are superior in this instance for a programmer? >> >> > >> >> > How is the man page superior? >> >> > >> >> >> >> Did you look at the excerpts which came up from the context. For a >> >> programmer bringing up the API it is blatantly obvious, in this case, >> >> which first stage info is more useful. >> > >> > The most common reason I have for looking at API docs is to remind me >> > of the order of arguments in a function. Mostly I can remember the >> > functions purpose. We're all different. >> > >> >> Hence the man page is superior :-; > > For this particular purpose both contain the same information. > > The Man page contains:- > int printf(const char *format, ...); > And the Info page:- > -- Function: int printf (const char *TEMPLATE, ...) > No they dont. The man page is the complete man page for printf. My examples were just the top few lines. --