From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Finding a easy way for prototype tipping Date: 15 Dec 2006 06:32:43 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166193163.411240.285930@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> References: <1166104989.808680.119430@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> <1166188073.391449.47140@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166193925 8720 80.91.229.10 (15 Dec 2006 14:45:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:45:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 15 15:45:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GvEJM-0003La-1l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:45:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GvEJL-0002Wp-Go for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:45:19 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166193179 14958 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2006 14:32:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:32:59 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: 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: 16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143969 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:39573 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: "Robert Thorpe" > > Date: 15 Dec 2006 05:07:53 -0800 > > > > > > To make sure that info pages contain information on memset I found one with C-h i, in entry: > > > * Libc: (libc). C library. > > > > > > That's it > > > > > > -- Function: void * memset (void *BLOCK, int C, size_t SIZE) > > > This function copies the value of C (converted to an `unsigned > > > char') into each of the first SIZE bytes of the object beginning > > > at BLOCK. It returns the value of BLOCK. > > > > > [...] > > Regarding Info-lookup, it could be something that's not supported on > > your system. It's a GNU Libc feature. > > ??? But Pawel explicitly shows (above) that he does have the GNU Libc > manual installed on his system. Not necessarily. There are at least two libc manuals in info format, the GNUlibc one and the Redhat Cygwin one. That manual also doesn't work with C-h C-i. > What other dependency on GNU Libc > could possibly defeat this feature on his system? The dir file could contain the entry, but there could be no info file.