Ah, thanks for the info. The last one is a nice choice to alias 'man' because it has the advantage of cross-reference navigation.
On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 8:02 PM Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 04:51:30PM +0200, Sebastian Carlos wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I noticed that GNU Info does render man pages, but there's no mention of > > this feature on the GNU Info manual. And it's not entirely clear if > there's > > a way to explicitly read man pages with GNU Info, or if it's just a > > fallback during certain conditions. > > > > Thanks. > > There are a couple of ways to get the man page, in addition to M-x man: > > * Use the --all (or -a) option. For example, "info --all ls". This takes > you > to a menu where you can either follow the info dir entry for "ls", or > open > the "ls" man page. > > * "info --node '(*manpages*)'ls" also loads the ls man page (this is not > documented). Somewhat inconsistently, "info --file '*manpages*' --node > ls" > doesn't work -- there is no rhyme or reason behind this as far as I am > aware. >
