From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jmg3000@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do I find docs for a given library? (minor mode?) Date: 23 Mar 2007 07:29:19 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1174660159.309956.164760@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com> References: <1174508036.020011.311140@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <1174583285.480634.130180@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174660793 2428 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2007 14:39:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:39:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 23 15:39:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HUkvb-0001sc-LY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:39:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HUkxW-000543-0P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:41:38 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 44 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 72.1.159.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1174660160 27030 127.0.0.1 (23 Mar 2007 14:29:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:29:20 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070208 Iceweasel/2.0.0.2 (Debian-2.0.0.2+dfsg-3),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=72.1.159.253; posting-account=0jymeQwAAAALbReIpIl6kgFFa_Xdu9Pp Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146528 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:42132 Archived-At: On Mar 23, 9:37 am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: jmg3...@gmail.com > > Date: 22 Mar 2007 10:08:05 -0700 > > > > Another possibility is to look up the documentation in the Info > > > manuals: "C-h F COMMAND RET", where COMMAND is some command from the > > > library you load. > > > I get to the GNU Emacs FAQ with `C-h F' > > So you have Emacs 21.x (please always say in the future what version > you are using), where you should type "C-h C-f COMMAND RET" instead. Whoops. Sorry. (21.4 is what you currently get on Debian Etch with an `apt-get install emacs'.) > > Also, incidentally (though I don't think it's directly related to your > > suggestion), this is on Debian Etch, and the Emacs manual is > > conspicuously missing... > > If the manual is missing, then "C-h C-f" will not work, but I suggest > to try that anyway, in case the manual is hiding in some place where > only Emacs can find it. Ah, ok. It looks like that would work if the manual were there (and if I knew ahead of time what command I wanted docs on). Instead, the minibuffer tells me: | | Info file emacs does not exist | BTW, after searching around, I think this ``missing Emacs manual on Debian'' issue has already been discussed, and seems to actually have been done on purpose due to the DFSG having a problem with the GFDL. Thanks Eli. Perhaps it may be that it's not immediately useful to be able to ``list all functions'' in a library, as some of them may not even be directly useful to a user while editing. I'll stick with finder-commentary, which looks very handy. Thanks, ---John