Gabin, Alfred, Thank you both.
It's not that `man info` isn't enough for my purposes, I just felt that since there exists a `man man` there should also exist an `imfo info` for matters of symmetry. Regarding RCA, apologies for using it. I meant an Root Cause Analysis. I understand that this has already been done, judging from your reply, so kindly disregard this one. Thank you both again for seriously looking into this. Best, Mike --- Michail L. Liarmakopoulos, MSc On Sun, Nov 28, 2021, 11:52 Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 04:51:50AM +0100, Michail L. Liarmakopoulos wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was playing today with info and man with some friends over some Discord > > server and we discovered the following: > > > > *Info version:* > > I have the info command of version 6.5: > > > > milia@Newton:~/Downloads/apljk/apljk-related-repos$ man info | tail > > > This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute > it. > > > There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. > > > > > > SEE ALSO > > > The full documentation for info is provided by the > > > texinfo-doc-nonfree package as a Texinfo manual. If this package is > > > installed at your site, the command > > > > > > > info info > > > > > > > should give you access to the complete manual. (Or, if you have > > > Emacs, M-x info will lead to the manual.) > > As Alfred said there is an info manual for info. > > I believe that this should not be an issue in more recent versions of > Ubuntu (or other Debian-derived distributions) due to the > texinfo-doc-nonfree package being retired. There's no reason they > shouldn't > be installing the Texinfo manuals as the licence (GFDL without Cover Texts > or Invariant Sections) is considered free by Debian policies, AFAIK. > > > *Friendly feature requests:* > > 1. Could you please write an info for the info program so that the `info > > info` doen't return just an error message, but provides a full length > > description about how info works, with line count larger than `man info` > ? > > If the issue persists with defective Texinfo installations by > distributions, > perhaps we should add a message to explain if "info info" doesn't work, > then > the distribution is at fault. I expect this wouldn't be an issue with > newer > distributions though. It's a shame that people don't have access > to Texinfo manuals because of past issues with the GFDL, and this is > reflecting poorly on the Texinfo system. > > > > 2. Could you please do a RCA as to why we get the error "info: No menu > item > > 'man' in node '(dir)Top'" when we do `info man`? I believe this shouldn't > > be displayed. > > Sorry I don't know what an RCA is. I don't believe there is a Texinfo > manual > for man. There is an info page for groff which does the back-end > processing > for man, but man is a separate program. >
