From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert P. J. Day" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how to open an uninstalled info file from within emacs Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032873381 22792 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2002 13:16:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:16:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tpY4-0005vT-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 15:16:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17tpY8-0003LV-00; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17tpXN-0003IX-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:15:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17tpXL-0003IL-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:15:36 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.188]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17tpXK-0003IG-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: from dell ([65.93.97.112]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020924131533.JPJE1398.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@dell> for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 09:15:33 -0400 X-X-Sender: rpjday@dell Original-To: GNU emacs mailing list Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1785 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1785 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