Searching Python Manuals

Robert Oschler Oschler at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 15 09:41:49 EDT 2002


"Fernando Pérez" <fperez528 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:aoa0bb$8t5$1 at peabody.colorado.edu...
>
> You read them with 'info', an old GNU project hypertext system. I
personally
> can't stand the info navigation key conventions, but the little 'pinfo'
> reader is fabulous. It has much nicer keyboard navigation than info, it
color
> highlights nodes and links, and it even does man pages (in fact, my 'man'
> command is in fact an alias to 'pinfo -c -s -m', it's that much better).
>
> Cheers,
>
> f.

Fernando, I just installed pinfo, but when I tried to the '-c -s -m' command
line flags you mentioned, I get an error complaining it can't find a 'man'
page.  Running just 'pinfo' works fine though.

thx






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