On 16 February 2016 at 07:38, Gavin Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 February 2016 at 02:52, Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: >>> it seems that info 6.1 lost the ability to dump the start page >>> into an output file: >>> >>> $ info --output foobar coreutils >>> >>> properly dumps the coreutils page into foobar, but >>> >>> $ info --output foobar >>> >>> does *not* dump the dir/root node. >>> >>> This breaks completion in some shells, as they use >>> >>> info --output - >>> >>> to determine the possible nodes. > > I'm looking at it, but it will take me a few days to get around to it.
"info --output -" outputs the dir node in the latest revision (svn revision 7022). However, the invocation of info is complex with interactions among all the different possible options, and I can't guarantee that all the combinations of options make sense or do the right thing.
