On 12/06/2024 01:00, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On 11/06/2024 06:45, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Should you ever feel a need to read the longer version of the
documentation, it's in GNU info pages. So you would need to type
the command "info coreutils date" to get to it. And then you'd need
to figure out the user interface of the "info" program, which is not
intuitive unless you happen to be an emacs power user already.
[...]
I also provided a reference to the info page, and a command that would
bring that up, should the need ever arise. More importantly, I revealed
that info pages *exist* and *are a thing* that they need to know about.
It's planting a seed for the future.
I misunderstood your intention and I am sorry for that. I found your
words quite discouraging in respect to "info", perhaps it is just
language barrier.
Info is quite important. While e.g. "man bash" and "info bash" documents
are quite similar, there is no man equivalent for "info grub".
Your variant of info command is quite specific. I like that "info"
allows partial match of node name and it may be a separate argument.
Unfortunately tkinfo and the Emacs function require another style (info
"(coreutils) date invocation"). Every coreutils man page has it in the
"SEE ALSO" section.
I do not mind that users almost certainly familiar with basic pager UI
and using of "info" requires some knowledge. In this particular case UI
does not differ
- info "(coreutils) date invocation"
- /week [Enter]
P.S. Perhaps Emacs developers teach users how to fish as well. From my
point of view the following path described in "emacs --help" is
unnecessary long:
Run M-x info RET m emacs RET m emacs invocation RET inside Emacs to
read the main documentation for these command-line arguments.
