From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How use info Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:21:57 +0200 Message-ID: <01c4e515$Blat.v2.2.2$758a7a60@zahav.net.il> References: <1103363688.932306.109560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103383551 20331 80.91.229.6 (18 Dec 2004 15:25:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:25:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 18 16:25:14 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CfgS2-0002QG-00 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:24:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CfgcE-0002aO-Dl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:35:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cfgbk-0002Wj-V2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:35:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Cfgbi-0002VK-OG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:34:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Cfgbi-0002Un-9H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:34:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CfgPS-00048J-5v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:22:18 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (tony05-73-210.inter.net.il [80.230.73.210]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id ACD45304 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 18 Dec 2004 17:22:14 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: <1103363688.932306.109560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> (g.castaldi@gmail.com) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22851 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22851 > From: "g.castaldi@gmail.com" > Date: 18 Dec 2004 01:54:48 -0800 > > I like use emacs beacause is really powerful but a weakness I've found > is that the help, the info pages, aren't so easy to use. Any other complaints except the search capabilities (which I hope I clarify below)? I mean, ``info pages aren't so easy to use'' says something much more general than just search, right? > For example now I need to find out how I can put a conditon based on > the operating system in my .emacs. I don't know where to look for but I > suppose that if I could search on all the info pages the worlds 'os' > and 'operating system' I found the right pages. > Instead, if I've understood good, with info I can only: > * navigate among the pages > * execute a search by index (i), I've tried several searchs but it > didn't find anything, even if 'emacs', 'command' and 'lisp' (I'm using > emacs 21.3 under windows) > * execute a search with 's', but it searchs only in the current node First, `s' searches the entire manual, not only the current node. If it doesn't work for you, please tell the details: what you typed and why you decided that it stops at the current node. And second, using `i' is _precisely_ the right idea. It's just that you tried to search a wrong manual. You should have tried looking this in the ELisp manual, which is where Lisp programming issues are documented. I've just typed `i operating system RET' in the ELisp manual, and immediately found myself on the very page that documents the variables that one can use for OS-specific code. > what do you do when you need to search an info but you don't know > where to search? Use the `i' command, of course ;-)