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Re: $ info ed gets me the ediff info page
From: |
Hans-Bernhard Broeker |
Subject: |
Re: $ info ed gets me the ediff info page |
Date: |
23 Jan 2001 18:01:07 GMT |
Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> $ info ed
> should take us to the info page about the ed editor, right?
No. It should take you to whatever menu entry *you* (or your admin)
wrote into the toplevel menu that matches 'ed'.
> Wrong. Don't blame it on ed not having an info page, blame it on the
> info program taking me to the ediff page instead, bad.
It's not info that put the 'ediff' info entry above the one for 'ed'
in the toplevel menu file.
> man wouldn't do that [good].
But OTOH, 'man printf' will usually give me printf(1), the shell
utility, instead of printf(3) the C library function I wanted. Is that
really better?
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (address@hidden)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.