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Re: [5605] info-stnd invocation doc tweaks


From: Gavin Smith
Subject: Re: [5605] info-stnd invocation doc tweaks
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 20:14:18 +0100

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 7:52 PM, karl <address@hidden> wrote:
>  @example
> -info ls
> +info coreutils
>  @end example
>
> -This looks for an entry labelled @code{ls}, and if found, displays the
> -referenced file at the location given.
> +This looks for an entry labelled @code{coreutils}, or
> address@hidden, etc., and if found, displays the referenced file at
> +the location given.  @code{info coreu} will find it too, if there is
> +no better match.
>
My idea behind using the "ls" example is that there is no file called
"ls.info.gz", etc., but the ls documentation is contained within a
larger file ("coreutils.info"). This shows one use of having a dir
file instead of just looking for files by name.



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