Bug#814743: [regression?] output of info --output without argument

[Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>]

On 16 February 2016 at 07:38, Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 February 2016 at 02:52, Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> wrote:
>>> it seems that info 6.1 lost the ability to dump the start page
>>> into an output file:
>>>
>>>       $ info --output foobar coreutils
>>>
>>> properly dumps the coreutils page into foobar, but
>>>
>>>       $ info --output foobar
>>>
>>> does *not* dump the dir/root node.
>>>
>>> This breaks completion in some shells, as they use
>>>
>>>       info --output -
>>>
>>> to determine the possible nodes.
>
> I'm looking at it, but it will take me a few days to get around to it.

"info --output -" outputs the dir node in the latest revision (svn
revision 7022). However, the invocation of info is complex with
interactions among all the different possible options, and I can't
guarantee that all the combinations of options make sense or do the
right thing.