Re: info info; man info (documentation about info)

[Gavin Smith]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 06:52:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It's an obscure capability that is useful in marginal situations.  A
> large manual piped like this will present a humongously long linear
> text, and I doubt that the result will be a convenient read.  It's
> again not an incident that the vast majority of man pages are quite
> short and dedicated to a single relatively small subject.

That's my feeling too, and I don't see why this usage should be advertised
in a short manpage.  If there's some way of making info easier to learn
e.g., by improving the welcome message or documentation, then we could do
that, rather than promoting this defective usage.