From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs manual Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:35:16 +0300 Message-ID: <83vdpf43iz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tz4zmfn6.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239201709 30626 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2009 14:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:41:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 08 16:43:07 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 1LrYzG-0003Ui-3j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:42:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38038 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LrYxr-0003Yr-SU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrYtz-0007qM-Fr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LrYty-0007pJ-8H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50517 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LrYty-0007p6-3W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:37:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:11806) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LrYtx-0007X8-JT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:37:17 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout3.012.net.il by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KHS00200D9R6400@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:37:15 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.70.19]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KHS005L6DY3ZYG0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:37:15 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87tz4zmfn6.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:63560 Archived-At: > From: Sean Sieger > Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 09:36:13 -0400 > > I was just navigating my way back to a point in the Emacs Manual, the > section, `22 File Handling'. I did `t', `m' and then typed > > file h > > ``[No Match]'' was the message that I got. > > From the top level of the manual, ``Files'' is the name of the section. > I remembered the last chapter name or section name I'd come across > (again, `22 File Handling') as I do when I close a book and put it down. In an Info manual, there are node names and there are section names. A section name is what you see at the beginning of the section; "22 File Handling" is an example. The corresponding node name appears in the mode line, where you should see "(emacs) Files", which tells you that you are in the node "Files" of the "emacs" manual. The `m' command wants a node name, not the name of a section. More accurately, it wants the name of a menu item. Normally, menu items are just node names, but sometimes they also have an additional menu entry name. Here are two examples: * Files:: All about handling files. * Multiples: Buffers. Multiple buffers; editing several files at once. The reason the `m' command does not work on section names is because it looks at the menu entries, not at the list of all the sections in the manual. And section names do not appear in the menu entries.