On Fri, Oct 3, 2025, at 10:00, Mike Jonkmans wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 03, 2025 at 05:27:21PM +0200, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
>> Mike Jonkmans <[email protected]> writes:
>> > (
>> > cd /usr/share/info
>> > zcat $(ls -1 libc.info* | sort -t '-' -k 2 -n ) |less
>> > )
>>
>> You don't need to do that - 'info' will dump info pages if passed to a
>> pager. Try 'info libc | less'
>
> Aha, thanks. I didn't expect that from such a full screen program.
>
N years ago (N ~= 35?) I -- and many others I'm sure -- wrote a trivial script
that
essentially amounts to
info $1 > /tmp/foo; vim /tmp/foo
along with some colorization and formatting sugar. Entirely reasonable for most
usage.
Cured a lot of my annoyance with the emacs orientation of the 'info' UI.
