Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]
On Mon 17 May 2021 at 11:01:33 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
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> Done! Now, let's try that with pinfo date. I ran pinfo date from my
> shell, which took me to one of the pages within the tree of coreutils
> texinfo documentation corresponding to the date program. This particular
> page is titled "21.1 ‘date’: Print or set system date and time".
>
> I pressed /, typed %F, pressed Enter, and I got:
>
> "Search string not found..."
>
> That's because pinfo doesn't search beyond the current page, and the
> current page is just a menu of links to other pages.
As a longtime user of pinfo I appreciate your exposing it to a wider
audience.
Regarding seaching: does the s key do anything to cause you to modify
your observation?
--
Brian.
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