Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 19:17:34 +0200 From: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is the info viewer? Message-ID: <22b944ba-f383-3790-d21a-9721348cd366@hedeland.org> In-Reply-To: <9006d11c-4e93-ee5b-26ef-3c62187b5d84@panix.com> References: <20190910070033.GA29721@admin.sibptus.ru> <20190910071826.GA28277@mail.bsd4all.net> <9006d11c-4e93-ee5b-26ef-3c62187b5d84@panix.com>
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On 2019-09-11 18:48, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
>>> >From /usr/src/UPDATING:
>>
>> 20150102:
>>> The GNU texinfo and GNU info pages have been removed.
>>> To be able to view GNU info pages please install texinfo from ports.
>>
>>> Herbert
>>
>> Better than the user-unfriendly GNU info is pinfo, in FreeBSD ports category misc.
>
> As a workaround, you can also use Emacs. C-h i browses the info tree that comes with Emacs. With a numeric argument (eg C-u C-h i), it asks for the pathname of an info file. Handy if you use Emacs
> anyway.
I don't agree with calling it a workaround - the info mode that you
enter with C-h i is a full-fledged info viewer AFAICS, "advanced"
rendering and lots of fancy info-specific navigation commands... And
at least if emacs is installed from ports/packages, you get a menu
based on *all* the files in /usr/local/share/info, not just those that
come with emacs - actually the default list of directories is
Info-directory-list is a variable defined in info.el.
Its value is
("/usr/local/share/emacs/info/" "/usr/local/share/info/" "/usr/local/info/")
Documentation:
List of directories to search for Info documentation files.
...
- I actually have a couple dozen files in /usr/local/info too, all
from ports/packages.
> I agree that if the base system includes info files, it should include a reader. However, /usr/local/share/info is not part of the base system; that's ports/packages. My current system doesn't have
> /usr/share/info.
+1
--Per
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