Re: info utility: buggy resolution of cross references

On 2026-02-24 18:19:19 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> People forget that "info FOO" does _not_ mean "show the file FOO".
> Instead, it means "find manual named FOO in the info DIR file, and
> show that manual".  The Info reader has a heuristic of assuming the
> user meant the file FOO if DIR doesn't have any entry for FOO a
> manual, but that's fallback.  If you really want toshow the file FOO,
> you say "info -f FOO".  Then the Info reader will find info.info
> without your having to type the extension explicitly

But when there are both a manual name "foo" and a file "foo.info"
that do not refer to the same thing, this is confusing, IMHO.

> > And the fact that "info.info" comes from Emacs is also misleading
> > (perhaps they should change that).
> 
> Why is it misleading?

Because this manual appears under "Texinfo documentation system" rather
than "Emacs" (or something that could be called "Info readers").

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