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Re: coreutils man pages "info sort" -> "info coreutils sort"
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ThMO |
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Re: coreutils man pages "info sort" -> "info coreutils sort" |
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Thu, 29 Sep 2005 20:27:09 +0200 |
Hello Jim, Paul and others listening,
> [...]
> > Jim, what do you think?
>
> We've been around the block a few times with Debian,
> trying to do just that, but there's at least one problem:
>
> `info coreutils pr' would display the `printing text'
> section of the manual, not the one on `pr invocation'.
>
> See the ChangeLog for man/Makefile.am for more details.
>
> However, if we can fix `info' to do the right thing,
> then I'd be happy to change it.
aah, now I see the "problem" - I guess it would be difficult for info
to sort out, what the user meant, so info looks for an exact match, and
if none is found looks for the *1st* menu entry, which starts with the
given prefix - as the menu entry ``printing text'' comes long before
``pr invocation'' info selects the first match.
There are several ways to come up with this:
· info coreutils 'pr '
the blank is important here, so info selects the wanted menu item
· resorting the menu items, so ``pr invocation'' comes before ``printing text''
· hacking an ugly shell-wrapper :)
THX for listening.
CU Tom.
(Thomas M.Ott)
Germany
- Re: Re2: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c, (continued)
- Re3: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c, ThMO, 2005/09/29
- Re: Re3: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c, Paul Eggert, 2005/09/29
- Re4: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c, ThMO, 2005/09/29
- Re: Re4: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c, Paul Eggert, 2005/09/29
- coreutils man pages "info sort" -> "info coreutils sort", Paul Eggert, 2005/09/29
- Re: coreutils man pages "info sort" -> "info coreutils sort", Jim Meyering, 2005/09/29
- Re: coreutils man pages "info sort" -> "info coreutils sort",
ThMO <=
- Re: coreutils man pages "info sort" -> "info coreutils sort", ThMO, 2005/09/29
- Re: Re3: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c, Paul Eggert, 2005/09/29
- Re6: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c, ThMO, 2005/09/30
- Re: Re6: coreutils v5.2.1 - stat.c, Paul Eggert, 2005/09/30