From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: help of some commands not found Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 20:33:24 +0100 Message-ID: <20170109193324.GA12103@tuxteam.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1483990442 13877 195.159.176.226 (9 Jan 2017 19:34:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 19:34:02 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 09 20:33:58 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cQfhc-0002ta-0h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:33:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42090 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQfhg-0001Jx-9o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:34:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQfhC-0001Jh-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:33:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQfh9-0004e1-4U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:33:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:59087 helo=tomasium.tuxteam.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQfh8-0004da-VI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2017 14:33:27 -0500 Original-Received: from tomas by tomasium.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1cQfh6-0003Cp-Ib for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Jan 2017 20:33:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112069 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 04:34:48PM +0100, Michele Bert wrote: > 2017-01-09 16:19 GMT+01:00 : > > What are you exactly trying to do? > > > Nothing important, I was just reading documentation of radomly choosen > commands. But the same happens on a number of commands. > > > Trying to guess, I assumed that you are searching for a function's > > description. Trying "C-h f" (same as menu "Help" -> "Describe" -> > > "Describe Function...") gives for me: > > > > What happens for you if you try those steps? > > Really I am searching for _command_ help: "C-h F replace-string" gives: > Next: Regexp Replace, Prev: Replace, Up: Replace > (emacs)Top > Search > Replace > Unconditional Replace OK. As others have noted, docs for later Emacsen are more complete. Updating recommended. In the meantime you might want to try C-h f (small "f"), which leads you to the function's docstring. Pretty terse, but most probably existent. regards - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlhz5YQACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYSdQCdE40sVWkjMoE33bMDmFpe3Jj8 k8sAnjORRN2MlhAj0pOi/PAi2zK9J9lG =fIIv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----