From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Lepiller Subject: Re: Widen info Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:59:54 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87k1r9l74f.fsf_-_@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42505) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRHvt-0005aW-2v for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2018 10:00:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRHvp-0007dn-UZ for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2018 10:00:01 -0400 Received: from lepiller.eu ([2a00:5884:8208::1]:45550) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRHvp-0007cX-Kw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 Jun 2018 09:59:57 -0400 Received: from webmail.lepiller.eu (static-176-182-42-79.ncc.abo.bbox.fr [176.182.42.79]) by lepiller.eu (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 0078fcef (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:256:NO) for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:02:18 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <87k1r9l74f.fsf_-_@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org Le 2018-06-08 15:50, Oleg Pykhalov a écrit : > Hello Julien, > > Julien Lepiller writes: > > […] > >> I read you're having trouble to find information from the section >> titles. Info manuals have an index where it's easier to find >> things. But actually, what helps me the most is to ignore the `info` >> command and open either the full .texi source or the "html in one >> page" version. Then I can do full-text search, which is a lot >> quicker. Does anyone know if there is a similar facility in the info >> program? > > Clément already suggested you hitting ‘s’ key in ‘info’ program. > > I want to add that if you have Emacs installed, you could invoke ‘M-x > info’ and then ‘C-x n w’ which will call “widen” to show all the > manual. > > Also, by reading ‘man info’ I've discovered ‘-o’ flag, which you could > try to use as an alternative to Emacs “widen”: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > info --subnodes -o - guix | less > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > […] > > Regards, > Oleg. Fun, thanks for sharing :)