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: Why I can't use `info' in emacs? Date: 15 Dec 2006 09:41:40 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166204500.437148.25780@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> References: <458268D7.6020203@163.com> <1166191335.058714.266970@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> <1166194633.486698.321520@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <5yirgd88hg.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166208095 11926 80.91.229.10 (15 Dec 2006 18:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 15 19:41:35 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 1GvHzt-00057a-TX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:41:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GvHzt-0001im-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:41:29 -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: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166204514 13489 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2006 17:41:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:41:54 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <5yirgd88hg.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: 16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143983 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:39589 Archived-At: Hadron Quark wrote: > "Robert Thorpe" writes: > I can see a reason for both. Thanks for the "info" .. lol. > > As an aside, one thing that has really surprised me at the moment though is the lack > of man pages / info pages for the gtk 2.0 libraries - making it > impossible to bring up help in the emacs "IDE". Yes. That is irritating, especially since the docs for the original GTK did support Info. Now they only generate DocBook formats. This was because of a decision to use a similar sort of comment extraction system to the one Emacs uses for C-h f, C-h v etc.