On Mon, Dec 29, 2025 at 07:12:01PM +0100, Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > 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!
I've made an intial fix for manpages (git commit a30c89bdf85). There is probably more to be done in this area. I've often found the number of ways info can be invoked overwhelming and it's possible there are some combinations of options that don't work properly, or that don't make much sense to start with.
