On 2026-02-24 18:19:19 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > People forget that "info FOO" does _not_ mean "show the file FOO". > Instead, it means "find manual named FOO in the info DIR file, and > show that manual". The Info reader has a heuristic of assuming the > user meant the file FOO if DIR doesn't have any entry for FOO a > manual, but that's fallback. If you really want toshow the file FOO, > you say "info -f FOO". Then the Info reader will find info.info > without your having to type the extension explicitly
But when there are both a manual name "foo" and a file "foo.info" that do not refer to the same thing, this is confusing, IMHO. > > And the fact that "info.info" comes from Emacs is also misleading > > (perhaps they should change that). > > Why is it misleading? Because this manual appears under "Texinfo documentation system" rather than "Emacs" (or something that could be called "Info readers"). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
