On Mon 17 May 2021 at 14:39:47 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:25:38PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 17 May 2021 at 11:01:33 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Done! Now, let's try that with pinfo date. I ran pinfo date from my > > > shell, which took me to one of the pages within the tree of coreutils > > > texinfo documentation corresponding to the date program. This particular > > > page is titled "21.1 ‘date’: Print or set system date and time". > > > > > > I pressed /, typed %F, pressed Enter, and I got: > > > > > > "Search string not found..." > > > > > > That's because pinfo doesn't search beyond the current page, and the > > > current page is just a menu of links to other pages. > > > > As a longtime user of pinfo I appreciate your exposing it to a wider > > audience. > > > > Regarding seaching: does the s key do anything to cause you to modify > > your observation? > > Huh... that's interesting. OK, these key bindings are *really* not ideal, > and I think I found some kind of bug.
Ideal or not, I hope you are acknowledging that pinfo can search beyond the current page. Press s, type %F, press Enter; I got a description of the option at the top of the page. -- Brian.
