On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 08:08:51PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > 2025-08-21 09:00:26 -0500, Bart Schaefer: > > As long as I can type > > make info; info -f Doc/zsh.info > > what happens before that is not hugely important. > Same here, anything that can't produce info and, at least as Well … if textinfo is important, then why not just write in textinfo which is also a rich documentation format? > importantly, with the same (or better touch that would be hard) > quality of table of contents and index as we curently have with > yodl would be a non-starter for me. Both mandoc and texinfo are capable here. Maybe texinfo can be interesting because man pages becomes sections of a whole "zsh documentation" entity so there will be no more zshall. I really love the way perl and zsh handle things (the main man is the index of more thematic mans) and AFAIS(aw) * 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. > > I'm not a great fan of Python, but, like Thanos, it is inevitable. unlike Thanos: * it's here for bad reasons (mostly active lobbying at the time when the unix culture was mostly ignored) * it can be defeated. regards -- Marc Chantreux Pôle CESAR (Calcul et services avancés à la recherche) Université de Strasbourg 14 rue René Descartes, BP 80010, 67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX 03.68.85.60.79
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