Gavin Smith <[email protected]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 01:29:04PM +0100, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> $ LANG=C info man | head >> info: No menu item 'man' in node '(dir)Top' >> >> But plain >> >> $ LANG=C info man >> shows the manpage for man > > I notice that the behaviour is different with the current development > version, and is more broken: "info man | head" displays the first half > of the manpage and then freezes (at least typing C-c kills the program). > > I will look at revising the info program so that piping the output to > a file works with a wider combination of options.
Thank you very much! Info is one of the tools that I only started to appreciate after a decade of using GNU Linux, and for me it by now superceded using a search engine when working with Guile (that has a good info manual). Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein, ohne es zu merken. draketo.de
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