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Re: Document rendering of man pages on GNU Info manual?


From: Sebastian Carlos
Subject: Re: Document rendering of man pages on GNU Info manual?
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 18:39:10 +0200

Oh I see. I was hoping that there was some non-interactive way to explicitly read man pages with info, and that it might be undocumented. But it looks like there isn't. Thanks.

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 5:49 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
[Please keep the list address on the CC.]

> From: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:30:20 +0200
>
> Stand-alone GNU Info for version 7.0.3, where I only found two mentions:
>
> > --all, -a
> > Find all files matching manual. Three usage patterns are supported, as follows.
> > First, if --all is used together with --where, info prints the names of all matching files found on
> standard output (including ‘*manpages*’ if relevant) and exits.
>
> and
>
> > M-x man
> > Read the name of a man page to load and display. This uses the man command on your system to
> retrieve the contents of the requested man page. See also --raw-escapes.

And why is that not enough?

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