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decade of using GNU Linux, and for me it by now superceded using a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
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