Here's an example session with which you can find, for instance,
warn_unused_result in the GCC manual:
$ info gcc
i warn_unused_result RET
This is something you couldn't do with a man-page and a pager, as
searching for 'warn_unused_result' will produce false matches. This
is
far worse with soemthing like '-g' for obvious reasons. To reach the
-g
flag in the GCC manual, you can:
i g RET
which will immediately bring you to it. In case it does not, you can
continue the index search using ','.
Wow, this is AMAZINGLY GOOD, thank you very much! :) It reminds me of
using
vim's built-in help, which is very enjoyable. Even <Tab> works as
expected in
index searches in GNU info, which is awesome!
When opening info, you should be able to hit 'h' to get access to a
walkthrough on how to use info. Unfortunately, this might be
obscured
on your system, as many distributors package that manual as part of
Emacs rather than Texinfo (which is, again, due to the standalone
viewer
suffering by trying to emulate Emacs, and so, trying to reuse its
manual). My TODO list has filing bugs with a bunch of distributors
to
fix this, but so far I have not tended to that.
Thank you once again, I'll start using info for sure! I'll also
recommend it
to other people.