Re: $ info ed gets me the ediff info page

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Dan Jacobson <address@hidden> wrote:
> $ info ed
> should take us to the info page about the ed editor, right?

No. It should take you to whatever menu entry *you* (or your admin)
wrote into the toplevel menu that matches 'ed'. 

> Wrong. Don't blame it on ed not having an info page, blame it on the
> info program taking me to the ediff page instead, bad. 

It's not info that put the 'ediff' info entry above the one for 'ed'
in the toplevel menu file.

> man wouldn't do that [good].

But OTOH, 'man printf' will usually give me printf(1), the shell
utility, instead of printf(3) the C library function I wanted. Is that
really better?
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