Re: Man-writing volunteers?

[Trent W. Buck]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:08:16PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
> Obviously incorrect, as I prefer the info manual. Especially since it is
> much, _much_ easier to find the node corresponding to a given screen
> command via info than via man:
>
>   iscr="info '(screen)Command Index'"
>   iscr shelltitle
>   iscr hardstatus
>   iscr zombie
>
> The equivalent for man is typing "/^[[:space:]]*shelltitle<RET>". and
> good luck if your command corresponds to a real word that shows up at
> the beginnings of lines...

In Emacs' info reader, the "jump to index entry" and "jump to
subsection" commands also autocomplete, so it's easy to see what your
choices are (by hitting TAB twice).