From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: info reference syntax
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:12:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109211248.GS10452@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e01d8a50901091127s45f52034qa16afaab595a066@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:27:40PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > What does this syntax mean?
> >
> > ,----
> > | See Info node `(viper)Top'.
> > `----
> >
> > Is there some way of using it to immediately access the info node
> > referred to?
>
> M-: (info "(viper) Top")
Great, thanks. That is useful to know.
"(viper) Top" still seems like a pretty weird syntax. Just out of
curiosity, is there some explanation? I see that the shell version is
'info filename nodename'. And according to wikipedia info was written
for GNU/linux. So it's a post-linux emacs design? Wouldn't
(info filename &optional nodename)
have been more natural?
Dan
>
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http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 19:22 info reference syntax Dan Davison
2009-01-09 19:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-09 21:12 ` Dan Davison [this message]
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2009-01-12 13:56 ` Xah Lee
2009-01-12 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-12 17:00 ` B. T. Raven
[not found] <mailman.4426.1231528955.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-12 16:51 ` B. T. Raven
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