[meribold]

Does anyone know of alternative UIs for viewing info pages? Using less(1) would be nice, but is it straightforward to do so?

[gradschool]

https://github.com/baszoetekouw/pinfo

mature project packaged for Debian and other distros, nice colorful curses-based UI, fast muscle-memory conducive keyboard control, you're welcome

[dotancohen]

Sure, that's how I do it.

  $ info git | less

[jwilk]

Wait, does git actually have documentation in info format?

[dotancohen]

  $ info git | head
  info: No menu item 'git' in node '(dir)Top'
  GIT(1)                         Git Manual                         GIT(1)

  NAME
       git - the stupid content tracker

  SYNOPSIS
       git [--version] [--help] [-C <path>] [-c <name>=<value>]
           [--exec-path[=<path>]] [--html-path] [--man-path] [--info-path]
           [-p|--paginate|-P|--no-pager] [--no-replace-objects] [--bare]
           [--git-dir=<path>] [--work-tree=<path>] [--namespace=<name>]

[jwilk]

That's just info(1) falling back to the man page.

[dotancohen]

Thanks, I did not realize that it does that.