Jim Meyering wrote: > Michael Stone wrote: > > The full documentation for ls is maintained as a Texinfo > > manual. If the info and ls programs are properly installed at > > your site (on debian they aren't), the command > > > > info ls > > > > should give you access to the complete manual. > > The info documentation can also be read at > > http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/index.html > > > > The down side to this is that link won't be in sync with the debian > > package, but I just can't think of a better answer at this point. > > Another down side: it requires web access.
I don't prefer it either. People who are inclined to use web documentation will already be using it. People who don't will be annoyed by it. (I am in the latter camp.) > What do you think of "info coreutils ls"? It doesn't work for "info > coreutils pr" (because info matches the "pr" in the earlier > "Printing text" node, but I suppose I could special case that one > and have "info coreutils 'pr invocation'". I think there were a few > other ones like that, but getting ~96/100 is a lot better than > 0/100. I think it should be the normal case for all of the coreutils commands and not the special case just for pr. Why not have this done uniformly? info coreutils "ls invocation" To me that looks nice enough to be used for all of the commands. Most people would simply cut and paste it directly without typing it so the extra characters wouldn't be a burden. I think that should work for all of the commands without any special cases. And if it doesn't, then it should. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
