On 09/09/2014 01:32 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2014-09-08 18:10:35 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Note that IIRC originally the pointer was: >> >> info touch >> >> But that failed due to shortcomings in variously implemented >> install-info commands that I don't remember now. > > There were actually several (Debian-specific?) problems with this form. > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483554 > >> Therefore this was changed to "info -f coreutils touch" IIRC and >> then later mutated again to "info coreutils 'touch invocation'" to >> get more canonical. >> >> But I think in recent years the install-info problems have been fixed. > > If this is the following bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=139569 > > it was fixed in Debian in September 2009. The simple form now seems > to be OK.
There is also ambiguity in the shorter form: info stat info '(coreutils) stat invocation' Likewise for chmod, chown, kill, link, mkdir, ... So we'll stick with the longer form (which is likely to be cut n pasted in any case) thanks, Pádraig.