On 15 February 2016 at 02:52, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote: >> 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.
I'm looking at it, but it will take me a few days to get around to it. "info --output - dir" appears still to work. There were big changes to the invocation code in the 6.0 release: among other changes, "info manual -n node" works where before you would have to type "info -f manual -n node". I've also notices that "info --where manual" can print "manual" instead of printing the full path to the manual. > $ 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 -"). It doesn't crash for 6.0 and 6.1.