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From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how do I visit a file in info mode?
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:52:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <668c430c1003011652j3ddd4e0emc79a560ddee5dd1c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9667A1A3265745E1926D77A9E5864F4A@us.oracle.com>

Hi Drew,

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> You don't mention your Emacs version.
>
> In Emacs prior to version 22, any prefix arg gave the behavior you're looking
> for. Starting with Emacs 22, you need to use a non-numeric prefix arg to get
> that behavior.
>
> So try `C-u C-h i' instead of `M-2 C-h i'.

That was it.  Thank you!!
Completely unclear why it was necessary to change it, though.

Regards, Bruce




  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-02  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-02  0:12 how do I visit a file in info mode? Bruce Korb
2010-03-02  0:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-03-02  0:28 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-02  0:52   ` Bruce Korb [this message]
2010-03-02  1:03     ` Drew Adams
2010-03-02  1:21       ` Bruce Korb
2010-03-02  3:54         ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-03-02  4:17         ` Eli Zaretskii

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