Re: [Bug-tar] Re: tar man page

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Sorry, no way.  Man pages are simply searchable with </>string, and 
> then repeated <N>s to find other occurrences.  In info one has to 
> type </> and <Enter> repeatedly, which is majorly awkward.

You can configure info to work any way you want (see below).

> Plus man highlights the searched string, where info just places the
> cursor.

Sorry, man does not highlight anything, nor does it contain any
searching or cross-referencing capabilities. You are probably referring
to your pager program, which is a different thing.

> Furthermore, man pages are scrollable by line, whereas info pages 
> are paginated,

As I said, you can easily reconfigure info to work much the same way
less does. Moreover, its documentation (not a man page, of course),
contains detailed instructions on how to do so:

http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/info-stnd/html_node/infokey-source-format.html

It suffices to copy-n-paste the proposed .infokey contents and run
infokey.

> scrolls half a page -- or gets stuck at the bottom of a node, which 
> is infuriating.

I don't find anything strange that it stops at the end of a logical unit
of text.

Regards,
Sergey