From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to find elisp info doc for a function? Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:04:33 +0100 Message-ID: <87bn7gtae6.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455671111 29364 80.91.229.3 (17 Feb 2016 01:05:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 01:05:11 +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 Feb 17 02:04:59 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aVqY6-0006Qx-Cn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:04:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52326 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVqY5-0001qE-Lo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:04:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60101) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVqXv-0001q6-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:04:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVqXr-0000Nn-Uy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40458) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aVqXr-0000NN-NU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2016 20:04:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aVqXo-0006D3-IU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:04:40 +0100 Original-Received: from nl106-137-227.student.uu.se ([130.243.137.227]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:04:40 +0100 Original-Received: from embe8573 by nl106-137-227.student.uu.se with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:04:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: nl106-137-227.student.uu.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bx1szKkWPe5rDS8xMBuflZeUgzg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:109193 Archived-At: Drew Adams writes: >> For example, how can I find the elisp info doc for >> `mapconcat' right inside emacs? > > Use command `info-lookup-symbol', bound by default > to `C-h S'. > > But first, put the cursor in a buffer that is in > Emacs-Lisp mode. Either do that, or C-u C-h S emacs-lisp-mode RET mapconcat RET If you (the OP) do this several times a day, you can do something like this and bind it to a shortcut: (defun info-lookup-elisp-symbol (symbol) (interactive "Ssymbol: ") (info-lookup-symbol symbol 'emacs-lisp-mode)) It can be polished even further with a default to the symbol at point, however it is only educative to have to spell out the whole function name when you look it up. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573