Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 02:58:52 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> Cc: doug@fledge.watson.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is the info viewer? Message-ID: <20190912025852.57f64546.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <73a70d38-ff87-54b0-89ef-2aae257b03df@hedeland.org> References: <20190910070033.GA29721@admin.sibptus.ru> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1909102030500.59741@fledge.watson.org> <20190911041439.9ba45e18.freebsd@edvax.de> <10971217-3072-cfee-785d-3748e9879a2f@gmail.com> <20190911110708.95a9b3f8.freebsd@edvax.de> <44ftl3hrdf.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20190911160926.5b3549c3.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1909111123160.59741@fledge.watson.org> <73a70d38-ff87-54b0-89ef-2aae257b03df@hedeland.org>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:47:17 +0200, Per Hedeland wrote: > But, but... - surely there are no info files in base? They live in > /usr/local/share/info, which should be enough of an indication, but > just to make sure: > > $ ls /usr/share/info > ls: /usr/share/info: No such file or directory > $ ls /usr/local/share/info | wc -l > 78 > $ pkg which /usr/local/share/info/* | grep 'installed by package' | wc -l > 77 > $ pkg which /usr/local/share/info/* | grep -v 'installed by package' > /usr/local/share/info/dir was not found in the database > $ cat /usr/local/share/info/dir > Produced by: indexinfo 0.3.1. > > File: dir, Node: Top This is the top of the INFO tree > ... I think you have obtained this from a current FreeBSD version. Older versions still had *.info.gz files in /usr/share/info, and I may construct the following assumption: Lots of info-based documentation was part of GCC, and as this has been obsoleted by CLang/LLVM (is that the correct spelling?), the GCC info files have been removed. Other GNU-based tools also were rewritten for FreeBSD, and removed, so _if_ there are no more info files in the base system, the removal of the corresponding reader program is understandable. > Seems perfectly reasonable to me that tools to read the info files > from ports/packages are also in ports/packages, especially since there > are multiple choices. And just to add to the list: emacs (C-h i) - > which is what I personally use (since I use emacs as editor) - though > actually I often prefer 'less'.:-) It's also possible to the Midnight Commander: PF3 on a .info.gz file will make it readable (even though no highlighting as if it was a manpage). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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