"Theodoros V. Kalamatianos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Entering 'info mv' brings up an info interface to the exact same >> page, including the same suggestion at the bottom. This is probably >> more a Debian issue than a coreutils one, though. > > I think it has to do with whether the directory file (dir) in infodir is > correctly updated. IIRC info first uses this file to detect any nodes. If > it cannot find a reference in there it tries infodir/<topic>.info and if > that fails as well it outputs the manpage on <topic>. It is somewhat > difficult, though, to keep the directory file updated with full entry > hierarchies, rather than just the top node. > > I believe that the suggested info command should be "info coreutils cmd",
That would be nice, but it fails for e.g., `info coreutils pr'. That brings you to the `printing text' node. There were others, the last time I checked. An alternative is to use `info coreutils "pr invocation"', which works, but at some cost to readability and typability. FYI, if you don't like quotes, you can pare it down to this: [note the trailing spaces] info coreutils pr\ or even [but abbreviating `coreutils' is a bad idea] info cor pr\ or info coreutils 'pr ' Ideally, info would be fixed to allow an exact-match, rather than the current, first-match approach. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils