From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Abrahams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: bug#1761: 23.0.60; Can't reach info nodes that aren't in TOC Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:48:21 -0500 Message-ID: <87ljtondpm.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> References: <87fxk2t9uw.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> <87zli9n4pw.fsf@escher.local.home> <87eizgrwlt.fsf@jurta.org> <87sknw13lo.fsf@escher.local.home> Reply-To: David Abrahams , 1761@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231290258 32703 80.91.229.12 (7 Jan 2009 01:04:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 01:04:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 1761@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 07 02:05:25 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LKMqx-0007Wz-Uz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:05:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LKMpi-0000IE-H1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:03:42 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LKMpW-0000ES-1w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LKMpT-0000Du-5v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:03:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47558 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LKMpT-0000Dj-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:03:27 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:54700) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LKMpS-0005p1-98 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:03:26 -0500 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n0713Oux003635; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 17:03:24 -0800 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id n070t4VS001395; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:55:04 -0800 X-Loop: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com Resent-From: David Abrahams Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:55:04 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: owner@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: followup 1761 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 1761-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B1761.123128931032518 (code B ref 1761); Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:55:04 +0000 Original-Received: (at 1761) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 7 Jan 2009 00:48:30 +0000 X-Spam-Bayes: score:0.5 Bayes not run. spammytokens:Tokens not available. hammytokens:Tokens not available. Original-Received: from boost-consulting.com (boost-consulting.com [206.71.190.141]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n070mOWF032510 for <1761@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:48:25 -0800 Original-Received: from mcbain.luannocracy.com.boostpro.com (207-172-223-249.c3-0.smr-ubr3.sbo-smr.ma.static.cable.rcn.com [207.172.223.249]) (Authenticated sender: dave) by boost-consulting.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BEB5B1CC1E; Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:38:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87sknw13lo.fsf@escher.local.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:17:39 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:03:29 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:23852 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:23645 Archived-At: on Tue Jan 06 2009, Stephen Berman wrote: > On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:06:38 +0200 Juri Linkov wrote: > >>>> This is arguably a feature request, but it seems so glaring that you >>>> might consider it a bug. If I'm in an xterm and type `info dbus' I get >>>> a nice info session about emacs/dbus integration. But there doesn't >>>> seem to be any way to visit the same page from within emacs using >>>> info-mode other than `M-: (info "dbus")'. This seems needlessly >>>> inconvenient. `C-u M-x info dbus ' ought to get me to the >>>> same node if there's no info file named "dbus" in the current working >>>> directory. Also, there should be some syntax to disambiguate: >>>> `C-u M-x info :dbus ' maybe >>> >>> I also wanted something like that, so I wrote this as a start: >> >> But "g (dbus)" already can complete on a file name when point is located >> after the opening parenthesis. > >>>From within Info, yes, but the purpose of the function I wrote (and what > I understood the OP to be requesting) is to open any info file with a > single command invocation when you're not in Info mode. That's exactly right. It's a very odd that I can type "info foo" at the shell command-line and get what I want, but Emacs makes me look at the entire info index before I can tell it that I'm really interested in a section that isn't in the index. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com