Re: Making it possible to extend implicit INFOPATH

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:33:53 +0100 (BST)
> From: Reuben Thomas <address@hidden>
> cc: address@hidden
> 
> "info standalone" gives me "no menu item".

Do you have info-stnd.info file in your Info directory?  If so, that's
the manual you are looking for.

> I had assumed that "info info" was the manual for the standalone reader, as 
> its command is "info", but I now notice that that's wrong, which is 
> confusing.

"info info" is the manual that describes the Info _system_ and the
commands common to all Info readers.

> How was I supposed to know that I have to type "info standalone" 
> to get info on the info command?

By looking at the menu items related to Texinfo in your DIR file, I
guess.  How else?  How did you know about the others?

> It could usefully be mentioned in the top node of info.info

It's mentioned in the "Advanced" node.