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Re: info equivalent of "man -wa"?


From: Aaron Davies
Subject: Re: info equivalent of "man -wa"?
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:09:44 -0500

On Jan 15, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Karl Berry wrote:

> > i'm mostly interested emulating man(1)'s -wa behavior
> 
> As far as I know, info doesn't have anything like -a.  I doubt it would
> be hard to add, though.  Sergey, any chance of looking into that?
> 
> In the case of info, -a would only make sense with things other than
> normal "bring up an info page", as you describe -- perhaps only -w,
> right now.

i'll note that man(1) does support -a in its normal "view the manpage" 
mode--with man 1.6c, at least, e.g., if

% man -wa sh
/usr/share/man/man1/sh.1
/usr/local/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz
% 

then

% man -a sh

will display the first page first, then, after finishing it (e.g. with 
PAGER=less by hitting 'q') display the second. only after it finishes 
showing all the results will it return to the shell.

i don't know how hard that would be to emulate in info(1), nor is it 
particularly important to me, i just thought i'd point out that it 
exists.
-- 
Aaron Davies
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