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   Stefan Eissing (icing@chaos.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 19:32:05 JST Stefan Eissing

   „The GNU Project distributes most of its manuals in the Info format, which you read using an Info reader. You are probably using an Info reader to read this now.“

   🧐Is that the GNU term for a browser?

   https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/info.html

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     daniel:// stenberg:// (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 19:32:03 JST daniel:// stenberg://

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     • JP Mens

     @jpmens @icing agreed. The mandatory info format has remained an argument for me to never push for any projects of mine to become part of GNU.

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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 19:32:03 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • JP Mens

     @bagder There has never been a requirement that projects must use or even support the info format in the GNU project.

     @jpmens @icing

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     JP Mens (jpmens@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 19:32:04 JST JP Mens

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     @icing info has always sucked IMO, and the only sane way I've found for reading those manuals is `info .. | less`.

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     daniel:// stenberg:// (bagder@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 17-Feb-2025 20:26:54 JST daniel:// stenberg://

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     • JP Mens
     • Alfred M. Szmidt

     @amszmidt @jpmens @icing ok then, only implied.

     I actually found this just now:

     > The preferred document format for the GNU system is the Texinfo formatting language. Every GNU package should (ideally) have documentation in Texinfo both for reference and for learners

     https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/GNU-Manuals.html#GNU-Manuals

     and:

     > In the GNU project, man pages are secondary

     https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html#Man-Pages