From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "g.castaldi@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: How use info Date: 18 Dec 2004 01:54:48 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1103363688.932306.109560@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1103363975 11235 80.91.229.6 (18 Dec 2004 09:59:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 18 10:59:29 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 1CfbN3-0007Ob-00 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 10:59:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CfbXN-0000E3-LA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 05:10:10 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.133.246.7 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1103363693 18702 127.0.0.1 (18 Dec 2004 09:54:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:54:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/0.2 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=217.133.246.7; posting-account=Drbq1QwAAADhf84gwYAVuLK1NBO8pKpG Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127403 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:22850 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22850 Hi, 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. 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 I'm right or I haven't find the info command I need? And if I'm right what do you do when you need to search an info but you don't know where to search? Thanks a lot. Giannandrea