RE: Re: Modernizing Documentation format?

[zeurkous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:35:45 -0700, Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> * lot of people just don't use info
>>   * most just don't know it exists
>>   * the ergonomy of the info command is terrible
>> * info is pleasant just for people who installed emacs or vim plugins.
>
> Subjective opinions.

Not all of them. And "subjective opinions" would pretty much describe
the core of what cdb has been pushing on the matter.

>  Info and DocBook are still the standard formats
> for GNU software.  Although zsh is not GNU, it's typically packaged
> with GNU-based systems.

And it's just as typically used on non-GNU systems. 

If people need texinfo documentation to get by, me can deplore that,
yet a widely-used project like zsh should then remain neutral on the
matter and provide both forms of documentation, even if they are best
maintained alongside each other (instead of being clumsily generated
from a single source).

That's me subjective opinion. Hope it helps.

        --zeurkous.

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