On Fre, 27 Jan 2006, Karl Berry wrote:
> Something related: The most puzzling, even for me, error/bug/strangeness
> is that info jumps to the man page of "top" when you enter
> info ./notexistingfile
> instead of going to the top node or giving an error message ;-)
>
> Unrelated. Isn't it wonderful behavior? Explanation:
> - info tries to find the top node to search for notexistingfile;
> - then that search fails;
> - there is no info page for top;
> - so it falls back to searching for the man page for top.
>
> Yes, this is a silly bug. I've never mustered enough interest to fix it.
> Shame on me.
Well, I wouldn't call it a silly bug, more a correct behaviour, even if
it is not really expected ;-)
Best wishes
Norbert
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