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hyperpape | karma 8632 | avg karma 3.7 · 2018-01-06 19:00:39

Thanks. Is there a good way to open that in a browser, rather than a console?

teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · 2018-01-06 19:25:55+00:00

In general, the best way to read Info documentation is inside Emacs.

oblio | karma 25694 | avg karma 2.47 · 2018-01-06 19:57:09

"If you are a bash newbie, you should read the bash manual. If you want proper search for the manual, you should use info. If you want proper use of info, you should use Emacs."

Kind of a deep rabbit hole, isn't it?

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teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · 2018-01-06 20:53:55+00:00

Not in this case; the bash manual is not in Info form, but a regular old-style Unix man page.

gbacon | karma 1191 | avg karma 2.13 · 2018-01-07 00:39:36+00:00

True. You can do just fine in general eschewing info wankery in favor of man pages. Stallman may disapprove, but I don’t lose sleep over it.

Pete_D | karma 1119 | avg karma 4.19 · 2018-01-06 20:06:32+00:00

I don't know if you can locally, but they're often published online in HTML format, like at https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.htm....

gbacon | karma 1191 | avg karma 2.13 · 2018-01-07 00:35:28+00:00

I get that they may be unfamiliar, but learning your system’s tools will pay off over the long run. Search facilities in less and info are generally much more powerful than in your browser.

pdkl95 | karma 17069 | avg karma 4.63 · 2018-01-07 02:46:16

In addition to the HTML info pages hosted by GNU[1], a variety of GUI texinfo readers are available, such as tkinfo[2].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.htm...

[2] http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/

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