Re: texinfo documentation bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

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> From: Dan Jacobson <address@hidden>
> Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
> Date: 08 Mar 2001 06:56:47 +0800
> 
> only thru info --help does one learn about info -f.

You are looking in the wrong manual.  Try "info info-standalone",
that's where the stand-alone Info reader is documented.  The following
command will land you in the section which describes the command-line
options:

        info --usage info-standalone

> As to the emacs equivalent, who knows.

The Emacs manual knows, of course.

Inside Emacs, type "C-h i", then "m Emacs RET", to get into the Emacs
manual.  Now type "i info RET", to get Emacs to find the string "info"
in the manual's indices.  In the node Emacs shows, read the second
paragraph.

> both should be added to that texinfo node.

The Texinfo manual describes the Texinfo language and its usage.  It
cannot possibly describe everything; IMHO it's too large as it is.

> p.s., aside from info info, I didn't find
> $ man info
> working on my gnu/linux distribution [mdk]

That seems to be a problem with your GNU/Linux packaging: "man info"
does work on my system (which isn't Mandrake), and info.1 _is_
supplied in the GNU Texinfo distribution.