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Re: info cp


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: info cp
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:27:42 +0200
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address@hidden (Bob Proulx) writes:

> Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>> But the OPs system is strange, since the C preprocessor is called
>> `cpp' not `cp'.
>
> The problem is that "cp" is a common substring of "cpp" and 'info cp'
> will take you to the "cpp" info node page.  So the OPs system is
> actually pretty typical with this problem.

But there is an exact match which info will prefer over the substring
(actually prefix) match.

Andreas.

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