On 09/08/2014 07:12 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Bob Proulx <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> For instance, in the touch(1) man page:
>>
>> The full documentation for touch is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If
>> the info and touch programs are properly installed at your site, the
>> command
>>
>> info coreutils 'touch invocation'
>>
>> should give you access to the complete manual.
>>
>> This is now incorrect (as of 8.23?), because it gives the page:
>
> "info touch" still works, which is equivalent to "info '(coreutils)touch
> invocation'".
>
>> Note: Since the coreutils utility doesn't seem to exist in Debian, this
>> section could be removed, but this problem may reappear in the future.
>> So, it's better to use the capital letter C.
>
> Having info dir entries only differing in case seems like a bad idea.
I agree.
We could rename the node, but the bracketed form works well
without the need for any extra quoting. I.E. this is unambiguous:
info '(coreutils) stat invocation'
The following simple patch implements that.
thanks,
Pádraig.
diff --git a/src/system.h b/src/system.h
index 162446c..00180cb 100644
--- a/src/system.h
+++ b/src/system.h
@@ -582,7 +582,8 @@ emit_ancillary_info (void)
last_component (program_name));
}
printf (_("For complete documentation, run: "
- "info coreutils '%s invocation'\n"), last_component
(program_name));
+ "info '(coreutils) %s invocation'\n"),
+ last_component (program_name));
}
