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Re: texinfo documentation bug


From: Dan Jacobson
Subject: Re: texinfo documentation bug
Date: 09 Mar 2001 07:09:39 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7

>> only thru info --help does one learn about info -f.

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

Eli>    info --usage info-standalone

>> As to the emacs equivalent, who knows.

Eli> The Emacs manual knows, of course.

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

ah, found it. thanks

>> both should be added to that texinfo node.

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

maybe there could be mutual links added to all the pages in question
so the user could see them with Info-follow-reference.
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