From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Opening an info page by command name, take 2 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:34:20 +0100 Message-ID: <873au6ai43.fsf@escher.local.home> References: <840625.36398.qm@web25412.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <877ijj9d12.fsf@escher.local.home> <87fxy6dfro.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197549519 20346 80.91.229.12 (13 Dec 2007 12:38:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:38:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 13 13:38:49 2007 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 1J2nKp-0008R0-06 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:38:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2nKW-0002nB-8w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:38:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2nKB-0002li-Pt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:37:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2nK9-0002jy-VH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:37:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2nK9-0002jv-RZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:37:57 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J2nK9-0006rv-ID for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:37:57 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J2nJA-0001nY-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:36:56 +0000 Original-Received: from i5387d1a8.versanet.de ([83.135.209.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:36:56 +0000 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i5387d1a8.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:36:56 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i5387d1a8.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:50064 Archived-At: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:56:43 +0200 Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Quoth Stephen Berman : >> Here's something that may help you. >> >> (defun srb-info () [...] > A handy function that provides completion on a sensible subset of the > files actually found in the info directory, but the OP was interested in > opening info (in emacs) directly from the command line. Put the defun followed by its invocation (i.e., (srb-info) in a file srb-info.el and make the following shell script (call it e.g. srb-info): ------------8<------------ #!/bin/sh emacs -Q -l "/path/to/srb-info.el" ------------>8------------ Steve Berman