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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: get Elisp reference to info files
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2015 21:23:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878u9pus51.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.7859.1438806073.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 22:19:20 +0200 Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote: 

EB> Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
>> Have a look at (info "(elisp)Startup Summary") and see

EB> In another thread, I asked how to automatically get
EB> that kind of Elisp references to the info files.
EB> I don't know if anyone replied to that, if so I missed
EB> it, but here is a function that has proved to work in
EB> the two cases I have tested it:

EB>     (defun Info-get-reference ()
EB>       (interactive)
EB>       (let*((field (car (last (split-string Info-current-file "/"))))
EB>             (topic Info-current-node)
EB>             (ref   (format "(info \"(%s)%s\")" field topic) ))
EB>         (message "Killed: %s" ref)
EB>         (kill-new ref)) )

In an Info page, `w' will copy the reference to the current node (the
`(%s)%s' part of your format string).

Ted


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-06  1:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-29 10:17 How can I change the default loading buffer? Navy Cheng
2015-07-29 13:54 ` kastian
2015-07-29 14:32   ` kastian
2015-07-29 17:31     ` Navy Cheng
2015-07-29 20:11       ` Robert Thorpe
2015-07-29 22:43         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-30  0:38           ` Robert Thorpe
2015-07-30  1:58             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-02 15:56               ` Robert Thorpe
2015-08-05 20:19                 ` get Elisp reference to info files (was: Re: How can I change the default loading buffer?) Emanuel Berg
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.7859.1438806073.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-06  1:23                   ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2015-08-07 22:41                     ` get Elisp reference to info files Emanuel Berg
2015-08-07 23:06                       ` John Mastro
2015-08-07 23:19                         ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-07 23:25                           ` John Mastro
2015-08-08 17:37                             ` Robert Thorpe
2015-08-09  1:24                               ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-09  2:05                             ` Emanuel Berg
2015-08-09  2:23                               ` John Mastro
2015-08-09  2:30                                 ` Emanuel Berg

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