On 2016-02-15 11:07:00 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear all, > > (please keep Cc) > > it seems that info 6.1 lost the ability to dump the start page > into an output file: > > $ info --output foobar coreutils > > properly dumps the coreutils page into foobar, but > > $ info --output foobar > > does *not* dump the dir/root node. > > This breaks completion in some shells, as they use > > info --output - > > to determine the possible nodes.
Note: I have not tried 6.0, which I never used due to the broken behavior with subdirs: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792328 But up to texinfo 5.2 at least, it seems that info and info -o <file> were consistent. Note also that the -o option could make info 5.2 crash: $ info -o - - zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) info -o - - I don't know what this is supposed to do, but it should not crash. I've just found that due to a typo on the command line (I had written "info -output -"). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
