Comment by jwilk

8 years ago

> have a way to find the documentation for a particular short option

How?

There's an index, usually a separate one for command-line options.

For example in the sed info pages it's under "Command and Option Index" at the bottom of the top-level menu.

And, at least in the emacs viewer, there's a keyboard shortcut so you can just type something like « i - n » to see the docs for -n.

  • "i" works also in stand-alone info. I was hoping pinfo can do this too, but I can't see such functionality. :(