Texinfo pages were originally meant to be a longer alternative to manpages that had support for featureful navigation (links, indexes, etc). They’re nice and I can see a world where they did catch on, but the standard viewer is always a little bit of a shock to jump in to (being based off Emacs and all)
I just wish they’d put some damn usage examples in there. I usually just need to do one thing I don’t need a dissertation about it.
manpages of gnu commands usually lack them because they’re in their info system
Info system?
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info infoTexinfo pages were originally meant to be a longer alternative to manpages that had support for featureful navigation (links, indexes, etc). They’re nice and I can see a world where they did catch on, but the standard viewer is always a little bit of a shock to jump in to (being based off Emacs and all)
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tealdeer. Then instead ofman programnametypetldr programname.Some man pages have them. I agree that they should be more common though.
they are usually at the end
I would say sometimes rather than usually.