On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 11:37:35PM +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > Hi Arsen, > > On 1/7/23 21:33, Arsen Arsenović wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > > > Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> writes: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > As someone with zero knowledge of how info(1) works, but considerable > > > knowledge > > > of how to read a manual page (well, there's little to it; less(1) is > > > really > > > simple), I'd like to recommend something for the info(1) manual page. > > > > Check out ``info "(info)Help"''. > > That brings me to the same as `man info`.
It is likely that info.info isn't installed on your system as this file comes with Emacs. > [ > Next: Stand-alone Info, Up: (dir) > > Stand-alone GNU Info > ******************** > > This documentation describes the stand-alone Info reader which you can > use to read Info documentation. > > If you are new to the Info reader, then you can get started by typing > 'H' for a list of basic key bindings. You can read through the rest of > this manual by typing <SPC> and <DEL> (or <Space> and <Backspace>) to > move forwards and backwards in it. > ] > > > However, help that explains how to navigate is of little help if I first > don't know how documentation is organized. In a manual page, it is simple: > documentation for something is in a single page. In Texinfo, there is a > nodes a dir, a pointer, a file, a tree, ... and I don't know what they > mean. We could try to streamline the documentation in info-stnd.info so that repeatedly pressing the space bar gets you the information you need as soon as possible, without having to read past all the command-line options. We could move the "Selecting a Node" section earlier.
