bug#25131: thwarted from copying what one sees in Info

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-12-07, at 08:30, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:

> Go to e.g.,
> (info "(coreutils) Sorting the output")
>
> See that line at the top,
> ... > ... > ... >
> Looks good, right? Let's try to copy it with ^K.
> As much as you try, you will only get
> File: coreutils.info,  Node: Sorting the output...
>
> One needs to probably use emacs -nw in order to copy it.

I guess it's an overlay, so it is like that by design.
(Also in emacs -nw.)

Why is this a problem?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski