grumble about GNU info

[Kyle O'Donnell]

unalias ls ?

On 12/15/08, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Whenever I use GNU info I feel that I've been rickrolled.
>
> Example:
>
> ls is using colour when it has no business doing so.  The device has
> no colour capability and the terminfo says so.  So I went to look up
> how to control this "feature".
>
> As is too often the case, the ls(1) manpage is incomplete.  It does not
> describe the environment variable LS_COLORS (it should).  ls(1) says
> the full documentation is in texinfo.
>
> The info command is particularly annoying, so I install pinfo.  But
> pinfo doesn't take the same arguments as info, so I give up on pinfo
> for this task.
>
> I go to info coreutils 'ls invocation'.  I come up empty handed.
>
> RICKROLLED!
>
> So I'm grumbly.
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