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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: how to open an uninstalled info file from within emacs
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:17:31 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209241016170.15754-100000@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wtn1y7jseb0.fsf@licia.dtek.chalmers.se>

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jonas Steverud wrote:

> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:
> 
> >   so, from within emacs, how can i open in info mode a specific
> > info file that i've downloaded from the net?
> 
> C-u C-h i

ok, i'll bite -- why does adding the "C-u" universal argument on the front
of "C-h i" cause this behavior?  it certainly isn't intuitive, at least
not to me.  should i have guessed this somehow?

rday

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-24 14:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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 [this message]
     [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
2002-09-24 13:17 Robert P. J. Day

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