On Jan 15, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > > i'm mostly interested emulating man(1)'s -wa behavior > > As far as I know, info doesn't have anything like -a. I doubt it would > be hard to add, though. Sergey, any chance of looking into that? > > In the case of info, -a would only make sense with things other than > normal "bring up an info page", as you describe -- perhaps only -w, > right now.
i'll note that man(1) does support -a in its normal "view the manpage" mode--with man 1.6c, at least, e.g., if % man -wa sh /usr/share/man/man1/sh.1 /usr/local/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz % then % man -a sh will display the first page first, then, after finishing it (e.g. with PAGER=less by hitting 'q') display the second. only after it finishes showing all the results will it return to the shell. i don't know how hard that would be to emulate in info(1), nor is it particularly important to me, i just thought i'd point out that it exists. -- Aaron Davies [email protected]
