Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash

Re:Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash by khedoros1 on Saturday January 06, 2018 @03:09PM (#16087172)

For bash: 'i' gives me "no indices found" and 'I' says "no index". I can do a '/' search, which finds some "-p" strings, but "n" doesn't work to find the next.

From some other comments, it sounds like "info" uses emacs at its core? So I suppose I'd have to learn some emacs commands, if that's the case.

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Re:Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash by Pete_D on Saturday January 06, 2018 @03:27PM (#16087267)

info works without emacs, but some people prefer emacs' info viewer to the console one. The console viewer does have some idiosyncratic keybindings - for example, "n" means "next node at same level", and "}" means "search for next occurrence". "H" will give you a quick overview.

I'm surprised indexes aren't working for you - unfortunately I don't know of any suggestions to fix that.

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Re:Things I Wish I'd Known About Bash by khedoros1 on Sunday January 07, 2018 @12:38PM (#16091697)

Thank you for the comment! I've always been aware of the info pages, but it's honestly been years since I've tried to use them.

This thread is a good reminder to give it another go.

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