Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

From	Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]
Date	2021-05-17 20:50 +0200
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On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 07:25:38PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 17 May 2021 at 11:01:33 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Done!  Now, let's try that with pinfo date.  I ran pinfo date from my
> > shell, which took me to one of the pages within the tree of coreutils
> > texinfo documentation corresponding to the date program.  This particular
> > page is titled "21.1 ‘date’: Print or set system date and time".
> > 
> > I pressed /, typed %F, pressed Enter, and I got:
> > 
> > "Search string not found..."
> > 
> > That's because pinfo doesn't search beyond the current page, and the
> > current page is just a menu of links to other pages.
> 
> As a longtime user of pinfo I appreciate your exposing it to a wider
> audience.
> 
> Regarding seaching: does the s key do anything to cause you to modify
> your observation?

Huh... that's interesting.  OK, these key bindings are *really* not ideal,
and I think I found some kind of bug.

According to the man page, there's no default key binding for "search again"
(KEY_SEARCH_AGAIN_1), but in Debian's /etc/pinforc, it's bound to 'f'.

OK, armed with that knowledge, I did "pinfo date", then "s" and "%F" to
search for the same word as before.  Then I pressed "f" which advanced me
to the next instance.  Then "f" a second time, and it says:

Tag table is corrupt, trying to fix... (press a key to continue)

Pressing space takes me back to the main page of coreutils.info.

I'm just gonna go ahead and report the bug.

And thanks for the tip.

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OT: minimum bs for dd? Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2021-05-15 22:30 +0200
  Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-05-15 22:40 +0200
  Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-05-15 22:40 +0200
    Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org> - 2021-05-16 09:40 +0200
    Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-05-16 19:50 +0200
      Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-16 20:40 +0200
        Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-05-17 00:40 +0200
          Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-05-17 00:50 +0200
            Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-05-17 09:00 +0200
              Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-05-17 12:30 +0200
            Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-17 13:20 +0200
          Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 08:10 +0200
            Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-17 08:40 +0200
              Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 09:30 +0200
                Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 10:00 +0200
                Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 14:10 +0200
                Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-17 10:10 +0200
                Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 14:30 +0200
                Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-17 15:00 +0200
                info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-17 15:00 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-17 15:10 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-17 15:20 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-05-17 15:30 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-17 16:00 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-17 15:40 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-05-17 16:10 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-17 17:10 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-05-17 18:00 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-05-17 20:30 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-05-17 20:50 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-05-17 21:00 +0200
                Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-17 16:10 +0200
            Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-05-17 16:20 +0200
          Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-05-17 08:40 +0200
            Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-05-17 13:40 +0200
        Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-05-16 20:50 +0200
          Re: OT: minimum bs for dd? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-05-16 23:40 +0200

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