From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: how do I visit a file in info mode? Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 16:28:14 -0800 Message-ID: <9667A1A3265745E1926D77A9E5864F4A@us.oracle.com> References: <4B8C5803.6090201@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267489831 1685 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2010 00:30:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:30:31 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Bruce Korb'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 02 01:30:27 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmG0D-0006cQ-Ql for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:30:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38740 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmG0D-0003CK-8I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:30:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NmFzo-0003Bz-FI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:29:56 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54450 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmFzn-0003Br-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:29:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmFzl-00043S-Nl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:29:55 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:54834) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmFzl-00043H-J5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:29:53 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rcsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o220TmEq029013 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:29:50 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o21J4j9u018316; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:29:48 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt009.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 57451541267489696; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:28:16 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.179.75) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:28:15 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <4B8C5803.6090201@gmail.com> Thread-Index: Acq5nSJNWdBUZBSLRlatYkEGyfHZOgAAc7sg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A0B0201.4B8C5BFC.00F1:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:72280 Archived-At: > 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'.