Re: Better Help Docs Searching?

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 10:45 PM Zach Riggle <zachriggle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> One thing that I really like / prefer about man pages is the $MANPAGER
> variable, which I have configured to use bat(3) [1] as my pager, which
> gives syntax highlighting, highlights command names, and flag names.
> Is there an equivalent for "info" pages?

There is not.  Unlike manual pages, info pages are not designed for
display by a text pager.  The info browser is the info browser.

If you use emacs, it has a more sophisticated "info" interface, but
it's still not a text pager.

RE the other thread about "info" on MacOS being old:  If you've
downloaded the zsh-5.8-doc tarball, you've got the HTML files as well,
so you could browse those locally; they have the indexes.