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.
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.
Install
tealdeer. Then instead ofman programnametypetldr programname.manpages of gnu commands usually lack them because they’re in their info system
Info system?
Run
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)