From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: robert.thorpe@antenova.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Jump to man page buffer Date: 11 Sep 2006 08:42:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1157989359.152128.173990@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <8764fw22a3.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157992858 30673 80.91.229.2 (11 Sep 2006 16:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:40:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 11 18:40:57 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMopi-0005fh-Ri for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 18:40:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GMopi-0000hA-B2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Sep 2006 12:40:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1157989364 15429 127.0.0.1 (11 Sep 2006 15:42:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:42:44 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <8764fw22a3.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:141672 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37295 Archived-At: Hadron Quark wrote: > I have the following code mapped to f1. > > "manual-entry (current-word)" > > How to make emacs also jump to the buffer showing the resulting > man-page? > > thanks for any help. As a side-note, using man pages as references is trouble in systems that use GNU components heavily. The best docs of most of the general utilities are the info pages, the best docs to glibc are generally the info pages. The best/only docs to the kernel stuff and system utilities are the man pages.