Man pages and info pages (was: Python documentation too difficult for beginners)

[Teemu Likonen]

* 2010-11-02 18:43 (UTC), Tim Harig wrote:

> The manual format contains all of the information on one page that can
> be easily searched whereas the info pages are split into sections that
> must be viewed individually. With the man pages, you can almost always
> find what you want with a quick search through the document. Info
> pages are much harder to use because you have to try and figure out
> which section the author decided to place the information that you are
> looking for.

There is also the problem that people are less familiar with info
browsers than the usual "less" pager which is used by "man" command.

With the text terminal info browser called "info" as well as Emacs' info
browser you can use command "s" (stands for "search"). It prompts for a
regexp pattern to search in the whole document, including subsections
etc.