Re: coreutils man pages "info sort" -> "info coreutils sort"

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> ThMO <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> The neccessary parameter is:  --info-page="coreutils $*"
>> That way the man-page clearly state the command to type as:
>>   info coreutils <cmd>
>> without the need to name each command inside the info/dir file explicitely.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.  So, I take it that you'd favor a patch
> like the following?  This looks good to me.
>
> Jim, what do you think?

We've been around the block a few times with Debian,
trying to do just that, but there's at least one problem:

  `info coreutils pr' would display the `printing text'
  section of the manual, not the one on `pr invocation'.

See the ChangeLog for man/Makefile.am for more details.

However, if we can fix `info' to do the right thing,
then I'd be happy to change it.

> 2005-09-29  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * man/Makefile.am (.x.1): Have the sort man page suggest "info
>       coreutils sort" rather than "info sort", and similarly for the
>       other man pages.  Suggested by