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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Subject: how to open an uninstalled info file from within emacs
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:17:15 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209240911490.15340-100000@dell> (raw)


  in my quest to now learn elisp, i wanted to read "programming in
emacs lisp (2nd ed.)", using the info form of that doc.  i've already
figured out that, when i'm in regular emacs, i can open up an info
document with "C-h i" and, conveniently, if there are elisp expressions,
i can execute them with "C-x C-e".

  however, the info form of the document i want to read, while it is
downloadable from www.fsf.org, is not part of the installed info
library on my latest version of red hat.

  so, from within emacs, how can i open in info mode a specific
info file that i've downloaded from the net?  (short of installing
it, that is; i want to be able to do this to arbitrary info files
that i might download from arbitrary locations.)

  am i making any sense here?

rday

             reply	other threads:[~2002-09-24 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-24 13:17 Robert P. J. Day [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1032873383.12862.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-09-24 13:23 ` how to open an uninstalled info file from within emacs Klaus Berndl
2002-09-24 13:33 ` Jonas Steverud
2002-09-24 14:17   ` Robert P. J. Day
     [not found] <mailman.1032877016.19290.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-09-24 14:40 ` Jesper Harder
2002-09-24 17:55 ` Thomas F. Burdick

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