From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Bruce Korb'" <bruce.korb@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: how do I visit a file in info mode?
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:28:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9667A1A3265745E1926D77A9E5864F4A@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8C5803.6090201@gmail.com>
> It used to be the case that I only had to put a non-zero prefix
> on the "info" command. e.g. Esc-2 Ctl-h i
> and I was queried as to which .info file to visit.
> I cannot figure out how to do that any more.
> Google doesn't get me there.
> I do not want to install the thing before I've viewed it.
> What can I do? Thank you. Regards, Bruce
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'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 0:28 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 [this message]
2010-03-02 0:52 ` Bruce Korb
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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