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02-16-2018

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Issue navigating GNU Info nodes

Hello... and thanks in advance for in help anyone can offer me

I'm poking around the GNU Info command... It's a lot different from man pages (Including holding much more information) but I'm having issues navigating it... And it's frustrating the hell out of me!

My problem is when I go to do a search in the top level dir node... If I have to do more than a single search, they all fail on the 2nd search! My first search usually works (Unless there's a typo)... But the 2nd search fails regardless! I've tried to search for this page for things I know are on it... But for some reason the 2nd search always fails.

Can someone PLEASE explain to me how to make the search work? I've read through the manual... And I'm not seeing anything about this topic

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info

INFO(5) 							File Formats Manual							   INFO(5)

NAME

       info - readable online documentation

DESCRIPTION

       The  Info  file	format is an easily-parsable representation for online documents.  It can be read by emacs(1) and info(1) among other pro-
       grams.

       Info files are usually created from texinfo(5) sources by makeinfo(1), but can be created from scratch if so desired.

       For a full description of the Texinfo language and associated tools, please see the Texinfo  manual  (written  in  Texinfo  itself).   Most
       likely, running this command from your shell:
	      info texinfo
       or this key sequence from inside Emacs:
	      M-x info RET m texinfo RET
       will get you there.

AVAILABILITY

       ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/texinfo-<version>.tar.gz
       or any GNU mirror site.

REPORTING BUGS

       Please send bug reports to bug-texinfo@gnu.org, general questions and discussion to help-texinfo@gnu.org.

SEE ALSO

       info(1), install-info(1), makeinfo(1), texi2dvi(1),
       texindex(1).
       emacs(1), tex(1).
       texinfo(5).

FSF
								     GNU Info								   INFO(5)