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[help-texinfo] How to make info fail if the topic is not found?
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Arne Babenhauserheide (IMK) |
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[help-texinfo] How to make info fail if the topic is not found? |
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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:32:10 +0200 |
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Hi,
For the past few years I realized that I use man more often than info,
even though info is actually much more powerful. And I think I can trace
the reason for that down to a single cause: When info does not find a
topic, it shows me the top level of the info nodes instead of failing.
Can I somehow change that?
Essentialy I need these two to do the same:
$ man nonexisting
$ info nonexisting
The reason why dropping me at the top level disturbs so much is that
showing a list implies success, so I look at the file, hoping to get the
information I need, just to be disappointed to see the darn toplevel
node instead of my info *again*.
That really adds up to a lot of frustration over the years…
Is there a config option or so to just fail when info gets a nonexisting
topic? Or even a commandline flag?
Best wishes,
Arne
PS: Is it possible to teach info to remember the line of the cursor in a
given node? That would make browsing back and forth much easier (click
on a link in a menu to go into a subnode, hit u to get back, move to the
next interesting menu entry).
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