From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C help reference within Emacs Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:46:20 GMT Organization: [Infostrada] Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EAEAC72.1030303@libero.itNOSPAM> References: <3EAD738B.9020808@libero.itNOSPAM> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051635263 14970 80.91.224.249 (29 Apr 2003 16:54:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:54:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 29 18:54:19 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19AYML-0003oW-00 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:53:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19AYJm-0004hZ-0A for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:50:59 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.infostrada.it!twister1.libero.it.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.25.164.233 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@libero.it Original-X-Trace: twister1.libero.it 1051634780 151.25.164.233 (Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:46:20 MET DST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:46:20 MET DST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112525 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9022 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9022 Thank you: that's exactly what I was looking for!!!!!!!!!!! Libe Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>From: Tom >>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help >>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:32:33 GMT >> >>Hi. I was wondering if there's some lisp package that implements a >>browsable C reference manual. For instance when I'm editing some C files >>I need to remember the syntax of some function and I'd like to reach the >>definition in the manual maybe with some convienient shortcut. > > > This is already done, but the feature needs some setup if you use > some OS other than GNU/Linux. > > The command is `info-lookup-symbol', by default bound to "C-h TAB". > It looks at the symbol at point and then displays the appropriate > documentation from the Info manual which describes that symbol. > > The data structures that tell Emacs where to look for manuals for > various programming languages are set up for GNU/Linux systems. If > you use something else, you will have to use > `info-lookup-maybe-add-help' (in your ~/.emacs init file) to add > information about the documentation on your system. > > In addition, you will have to install the Info manuals themselves, if > they aren't installed already. For example, for C symbols, you will > need to install the C library manual. Again, for GNU/Linux, this is > already installed by default. > >