Re: [groff] Release Candidate 1.22.4.rc3

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Branden,

> Last I checked (years ago), the texinfo development mailing list was
> openly discussing its options for winding up the project.  It's just
> not very ergonomic for anyone except militant Emacs partisans, and
> pinfo, the info browser with key bindings friendly to mere mortals, is
> no longer actively maintained either, as I understand it.

That triggers my common reminder that

    info groff | less

works just fine, giving man-page users a familiar interface for
browsing.  A little sed(1) post-processing can deal with the annoyingly
noisy

    File: groff.info,  Node: Postprocessor Access,  Next: Miscellaneous,  Prev: 
I/O,  Up: gtroff Reference

lines.

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.
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