From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: python doc available in emacs info format? Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:25:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <4aba0b60-0aff-419a-877a-cac1e0e448ee__10177.9168741361$1250556027$gmane$org@j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250556027 32215 80.91.229.12 (18 Aug 2009 00:40:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:40:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 18 02:40:20 2009 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 1MdCkM-0006Gz-5r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:40:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MdCkL-0004Xr-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:40:17 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.python,comp.lang.perl.misc Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1250493924 12166 127.0.0.1 (17 Aug 2009 07:25:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:25:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j21g2000yqe.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172048 comp.emacs:98601 comp.lang.python:605328 comp.lang.perl.misc:645407 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:36:17 -0400 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:67233 Archived-At: info format for Xah Lee writes: > in programing elisp in emacs, i can press =E2=80=9CCtrl+h f=E2=80=9D to l= ookup > the doc for the function under cursor. is there such facility > when coding in perl, python, php? On Dec 11 2008, 6:56 am, Matthias wrote: > Yes, try C-h S (or similarly S): > (info-lookup-symbol SYMBOL &optional MODE) Display the > definition of SYMBOL, as found in the relevant manual. When this > command is called interactively, it reads SYMBOL from the > minibuffer. > Note that `the relevant manual' means an info file. With recent > emacsen on an Ubuntu distro, python arrives with info files and > everything is well configured. It also works with bash, latex, perl, > scheme, elisp, awk, texinfo, makefile, libc, or any info file with an > index. I noticed that Matthias actually mentioned that info docs is available and bundled out of the box on Ubuntu linux for many popular langs, as of 2008-12. Is that true? Where can i download these info files? As far as i know, a little google search or official doc sites usually don't have a download for info format. I'm interested in getting current version doc for perl, python, php, and ruby. Thanks. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84