Re: info is not dead
On 2024-07-23 11:13:47 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> The GNU info documentation is really intended to be read in Emacs where
> some nice formatting is done in the GUI Emacs version. The stand alone
> GNU info browser is rather obtuse. I found a much better option to be
> the independent pinfo (Debian package of the same name) browser which
> provides navigation up and down through the document using Lynx style
> key bindings. If pinfo doesn't find an info document it will open a man
> page when one is available.
But for searching, how can one get the previous match with pinfo?
(info has { and } to navigate through the matches, Lynx has n and N,
but what about pinfo?)
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