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Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info do
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation |
Date: |
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:30:51 +0100 |
address@hidden (Karl Berry) wrote:
> > Maybe the better fix would be renaming all the nodes in coreutils.texi
> to
> > comply with this convention?
>
> I think the node names should stay as they are. The convention is
> either "Invoking xxx" or "xxx invocation".
> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Manual-Structure-Details.html
Hi Karl,
> I originally named the nodes in the coreutils manual (well, it was the
> three *utils at the time) using the latter so that completion would work
> better.
>
> (Aside: a depressing number of GNU manuals don't follow either convention;
> standalone info has a ton of special cases built into it. :()
>
> As for the original report:
>
>> | Emit "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'" into the man page,
>> | rather than just "info PROG". The latter would often fail
>> | or simply display the man page.
>
> I suppose it is more reliable to say "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'",
> although it seems a shame to replace a simple command with a more complex one.
Another reason to use the more verbose command is to ensure that info
reliably displays the right node. Even with a proper installation, "info
pr" doesn't display the desired node (as you probably recall). Instead,
"info" simply displays the first node it finds with a name matching
"pr". In my case, it is currently the "PreScript" node of a2ps.info.
Without a2ps, it might be the coreutils "Printing text" node. There are
a handful of other coreutils program names in the same boat.
> What this report really says to me is that the dir file was not
> correctly created by the Debian (or whatever) installation process. If
Yes, that is the root of the problem.
It came down to a dispute about which of two install-info
programs should be installed. I'm amazed that it's lasted
so long (it seems it's been at least two years, now).
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Jim Meyering, 2008/01/26
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Eric Blake, 2008/01/26
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Jim Meyering, 2008/01/26
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Karl Berry, 2008/01/27
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Michael Stone, 2008/01/27
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Andreas Schwab, 2008/01/27
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Michael Stone, 2008/01/27
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Karl Berry, 2008/01/27
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Karl Berry, 2008/01/27
- Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation, Michael Stone, 2008/01/27