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:I always though that info was designed by people who tried vim and emacs and considered them too easy. Luckily, there are other programs for reading info pages, like pinfo. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 00:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
 
:I always though that info was designed by people who tried vim and emacs and considered them too easy. Luckily, there are other programs for reading info pages, like pinfo. -- [[User:Hkmaly|Hkmaly]] ([[User talk:Hkmaly|talk]]) 00:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
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Anyone else feel like the comic is going a bit out of its way to make sure people get the joke?  The title is the command, and the title text basically repeats the last line of the comic (albeit in the form of a command). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.64|108.162.237.64]] 06:31, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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I think that the joke here is actually that the pilot is attempting a manual override (I.E. overriding the automatic pilot and switch to manual control) by typing in 'manual override'(which is also the title, in fact), and the parser instead opens the manual under the 'manual' command for the 'override' program (as explained in this page), not that the manual is too long to be read in that specific situation (while that is a valid argument). 93.144.215.90 12:36, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Agreed. Wotpsycho (talk) 02:50, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Yup. Sounds right. 183.87.213.90 04:32, 8 June 2013 (UTC)Manan

The info page is overriding the man(ual) page as a source of information, even the name? --Qwach (talk) 23:06, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

"man override" is giving the (gnu) manual page for the override command. Yes? 108.162.219.223 06:39, 21 January 2014 (UTC)

There is no "man override" on UNIX like systems. And "GNU Info Override" brings up "bash: GNU: command not found...", while "info Override" shows up a full page off standard information, a small line at the bottom indicates that even here this page doesn't exist. Much more funny is: How to close this "Info Window"... There is no intuitive navigation on that window. CTRL+C helped. --Dgbrt (talk) 23:25, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

I always though that info was designed by people who tried vim and emacs and considered them too easy. Luckily, there are other programs for reading info pages, like pinfo. -- Hkmaly (talk) 00:23, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

Anyone else feel like the comic is going a bit out of its way to make sure people get the joke? The title is the command, and the title text basically repeats the last line of the comic (albeit in the form of a command). 108.162.237.64 06:31, 10 March 2014 (UTC)