From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info anchor not working in emacs23 Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 20:40:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291834174 23867 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 18:49:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 18:49:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 19:49:28 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 1PQP4x-0006GE-TH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 19:49:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42905 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQP4x-0004q9-CD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 13:49:27 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news.glorb.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!newsfe07.iad.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xnw0kVSZyvMZqeb3qLCAbKtZQKM= Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@UsenetServer.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 00:40:33 UTC Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178380 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:75824 Archived-At: > wouldn't the above be equivalent to doing in emacs? > C-x C-f ./test.info > M-: (Info-mode) No, not at all. Calling Info-mode manually will mostly not work. Info is fairly special in this way (and it's clearly a misfeature). You can try M-x Info-on-current-buffer which tries to turn a buffer containing a .info file into a proper and mostly functional Info buffer, but it's fairly hackish and has various quirks. Part of the problem is that Info is basically designed around the idea of accessing various files, so while at any given point it shows you part of a single file, it is not really bound to a single file in the same way as a normal file buffer. Stefan