Re: Bug#388684: coreutils: "info ls" opens the man page, not the info documentation

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> According to Jim Meyering on 1/26/2008 11:39 AM:
> |
> | I've just applied this:
> |
> |  2008-01-26  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>
> |
> |     Emit "info coreutils 'PROG invocation'" into the man page,
> |     rather than just "info PROG".  The latter would often fail
> |     or simply display the man page.
> |     * man/help2man: Change the template.
> |     Prompted by http://bugs.debian.org/399684
>
> However, the info manual recommends:
>
> |   So, there is a convention to name such sections with a phrase
> | beginning with the word `Invoking', as in `Invoking Emacs'; this way,
> | users can find the section easily.
>
> Maybe the better fix would be renaming all the nodes in coreutils.texi to
> comply with this convention?

Hi Karl,

Just wondering if you have anything to say anything about this.

I'm not inclined to change the node names, because they've worked
just fine for so long, and there might be code (or muscle memory :-)
that requires the current names.