Re: difficulties building from svn, missing help2man, segfault

[Gavin Smith]

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:00 PM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
>     do "info/ginfo --file ./doc/info.info" instead to open a file with
>     that path.)
>
> I believe that if the user gives a cmdline arg that is absolute or
> "explicitly relative" (starts with one of / ./ ../, or is like
> subdir/somename) it should be opened as the given file, and only as the
> given file, no info directory searching.  That is obviously what the
> user wants and expects.  Giving --file should not be required.
>

I agree. The documentation implies that this only happens for --file,
although I agree it is desirable without --file as well, so I will
check that this happens and will see about updating the documentation.

(At the same time I will add the documentation for the feature I
recently added, which is to search the indices of a file if following
menus doesn't get anywhere. This was in the TODO file.)