You mean something like this?

  https://www.gnu.org/software/ed/manual/ed_manual.html

On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 8:51 AM Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:

> *Are online copies of textinfo content available?*
>
> Many man pages end with:
> > The full documentation for Ed is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
> info > and XYZ programs are properly installed at your site, the command
> >
> >     info XYZ
> >
> > should give you access to the complete manual.
>
> I have problems with that.
> 1. *I don't want to install unneeded packages just to find out*
>     *whether or not the package _might_ be useful.*
> 2. The info output has an annoying format. A browser acceptable format
>     {plain text fine --  HTML *NOT* needed} is MUCH more functional.
>
>
> I posted this question to [email protected] .
> The replies totally ignored my primary question and reason I asked
> [emphasized in this copy].
>
> Side question:
> Could I have made any clearer what information I was looking for?
> TIA
>

You might have included a prefatory remark like this: "I used the likely
keywords, x, y, and z, in a google search and I couldn't manage to find it"
and then not needed to be clear at all in your query, because no query
would be needed.


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