'Info' var failure

'Info' var failure

[Mike Ballard]

Hi - 

Sometimes (often?) C-h C-i, when mark/point are on a valid var, Info will
search and open the appropriate section.  But I just tried that with
"gnus-summary-mode-line-format" while gnus was running and it failed to
return anything.  Running "s" in Gnu's Info section takes me right to the
var.  Is there a way to get Info/Emacs to call up that Info page without
having entered Info first (for gnus)?

Mike
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Re: 'Info' var failure

[Jesper Harder]

Mike Ballard <dont_w@nt_spam.org> writes:

> Sometimes (often?) C-h C-i, when mark/point are on a valid var, Info
> will search and open the appropriate section.  But I just tried that
> with "gnus-summary-mode-line-format" while gnus was running and it
> failed to return anything.  Running "s" in Gnu's Info section takes
> me right to the var.  

"i" is more similar to C-h C-i.

> Is there a way to get Info/Emacs to call up that Info page without
> having entered Info first (for gnus)?

Adding the Gnus index node should work, something like this:

(info-lookup-add-help
 :mode 'emacs-lisp-mode
 :regexp "[^][()'\" \t\n]+"
 :doc-spec '(("(emacs)Command Index"  nil "`\\(M-x[ \t\n]+\\)?" "'")
             ("(emacs)Variable Index" nil "`" "'")
             ("(elisp)Index"          nil "^ - .*: " "\\( \\|$\\)")
	     ("(gnus)Index" nil "`" "'")))

You need to do `M-x info-lookup-reset' before it takes effect.

-- 
Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>

Re: 'Info' var failure

[Harry Putnam]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> (info-lookup-add-help
>  :mode 'emacs-lisp-mode
>  :regexp "[^][()'\" \t\n]+"
>  :doc-spec '(("(emacs)Command Index"  nil "`\\(M-x[ \t\n]+\\)?" "'")
>              ("(emacs)Variable Index" nil "`" "'")
>              ("(elisp)Index"          nil "^ - .*: " "\\( \\|$\\)")
> 	     ("(gnus)Index" nil "`" "'")))
>
> You need to do `M-x info-lookup-reset' before it takes effect.

=> Symbol's function definition is void: info-lookup-add-help

Is something missing here I'm supposed to add?

Re: 'Info' var failure

[Jesper Harder]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>> (info-lookup-add-help
>
> => Symbol's function definition is void: info-lookup-add-help
>
> Is something missing here I'm supposed to add?

(require 'info-look)

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Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>