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Info documentation
Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 12 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Info documentation, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 15 complaints
- Installed manuals are a pain to search without knowing exact terms2026-03-22
- Info pages show the same man content in a frustrating interface, with no hint to install docs2023-12-22
- Default info viewer has poor presentation and needs shortcuts learned before use2023-05-26
- Commenter never learned how to use info pages; the interface was unusable to them2023-05-24
- Hard to quickly look up a flag compared to one-page man pages2021-11-30
- Keeps ending up in the wrong place and can't tell which section holds an option2019-11-13
- Useful features are buried across sub-nodes, hard to find without refreshing navigation commands2019-11-13
- Lost in the node hierarchy; no way to do global search or next2019-04-23
- Info pages work poorly in terminal and switching programs is frustrating2016-12-29
- Hard to quickly find needed information when using info pages2016-06-17
- Finding a section needs remembering arcane key sequences for links, search and going back2016-04-25
- Info pages are awkward and annoying to navigate2014-11-01
- Inconsistent manual structure makes it hard to find specific commands or flags2013-11-02
- Gets lost in manual structure and takes a while to find needed information2013-11-02
- Info browser is clunky and unintuitive, and hard to get output from2011-11-20