Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]
On Mon 17 May 2021 at 14:39:47 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.
Ideal or not, I hope you are acknowledging that pinfo can search beyond
the current page.
Press s, type %F, press Enter; I got a description of the option at the
top of the page.
--
Brian.
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