Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]
On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:25:38PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 17 May 2021 at 11:01:33 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > 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?
Huh... that's interesting. OK, these key bindings are *really* not ideal,
and I think I found some kind of bug.
According to the man page, there's no default key binding for "search again"
(KEY_SEARCH_AGAIN_1), but in Debian's /etc/pinforc, it's bound to 'f'.
OK, armed with that knowledge, I did "pinfo date", then "s" and "%F" to
search for the same word as before. Then I pressed "f" which advanced me
to the next instance. Then "f" a second time, and it says:
Tag table is corrupt, trying to fix... (press a key to continue)
Pressing space takes me back to the main page of coreutils.info.
I'm just gonna go ahead and report the bug.
And thanks for the tip.
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