> You can search a whole info file just as quickly as a man page
It's possible that I just don't know how to use info. I always end up in the wrong place. That does not happen with man.
> and using the index you can jump to the canonical docs for any argument or command in one go
How?
> (ever spent time trying to find the hyphen-character section of a man page but struggled because it's referenced in 10 places?)
No, because the options are indented and inserting a few spaces before the hyphen in search string eliminates virtually all in-text references. Conventionally, the options are alpha-sorted too. In info pages, I end up wondering which section the option I want might be covered in.
It's possible that I just don't know how to use info. I always end up in the wrong place. That does not happen with man.
> and using the index you can jump to the canonical docs for any argument or command in one go
How?
> (ever spent time trying to find the hyphen-character section of a man page but struggled because it's referenced in 10 places?)
No, because the options are indented and inserting a few spaces before the hyphen in search string eliminates virtually all in-text references. Conventionally, the options are alpha-sorted too. In info pages, I end up wondering which section the option I want might be covered in.