Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > the inability to *search* within the > info page to find occurrences of your keyword can be maddening.
It's not _that_ terrible. Pressing in info dd the "/" key, i get a prompt Regexp search []: The input "dsync" brings me to the ‘dsync’ explanation. Pressing "/" again and then the Enter key, brings me to its line in the Concept index. Doing it again brings me back to the first found occurence. Said that, i agree that the form of man pages is more comfortable to me than the form of info. As maintainer of GNU xorriso i am obliged to provide an info document, which must not contain less information than the man page. My solution is to insert enough @c comments with man page entrails into the .texi file which is the source of xorriso.info https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisoburn/raw/branch/master/xorriso/xorriso.texi to be able to derive the man page https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisoburn/raw/branch/master/xorriso/xorriso.1 by help of a little C program https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisoburn/raw/branch/master/xorriso/make_xorriso_1.c The GNU utiliy makeinfo ignores the comments and generates the .info document from xorriso.texi https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisoburn/raw/branch/master/xorriso/xorriso.info (My browser refuses to show it but only offers for download.) The Debian package of xorriso installs xorriso.1.gz and xorriso.info.gz alike. Both give the same information. I look up the man page when i need to remember what i programmed ten years ago. Have a nice day :) Thomas
