Public bug reported:
The option "--node" of "pinfo" is used to initially navigate to a section of
the info page (a node),
in the same way it is implemented in "info".
This option is important when accessing long info pages.
It could be expected that the option is compatible with "info",
and therefore has a short form "-n". It seems like this was actually intended
to be the case.
Using the option "-n", as in
$ pinfo zsh -n Keymaps
fails with an error message referring to the long option "--node":
$ pinfo zsh -n Keymaps
Przemek's Info Viewer v0.6.9
--node option used without argument
The long option works fine, in the same way it does in "info":
$ pinfo zsh --node Keymaps
opens the info page for "zsh", showing the section "Keymaps".
Another example of the options relevance:
$ pinfo coreutils --node 'tsort invocation'
shows the info page of "tsort" (a node of coreutils, actually),
while using "-n" does not. Navigating manually from
$ pinfo coreutils
is not a good alternative, because the index is long.
(Note that "pinfo tsort" shows the man page of "tsort", which is very
short)
** Affects: pinfo (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Short form of option "--node" ("-n") is present, but broken and
undocumented
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