From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Open info file directly in emacs info reader Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 16:56:36 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87r7q9cxe5.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092537616 5751 80.91.224.253 (15 Aug 2004 02:40:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 02:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 15 04:40:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BwAwK-0005R5-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:40:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BwB0L-00080Q-Gu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:44:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BwB0E-00080L-Mn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BwB0E-000809-3O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BwB0D-000806-Vp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:44:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BwAwA-0002R9-No for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BwAgE-0008Je-C9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Aug 2004 22:23:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BwAgC-0001TG-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:23:28 +0200 Original-Received: from adsl-68-74-112-145.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net ([68.74.112.145]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:23:28 +0200 Original-Received: from reader by adsl-68-74-112-145.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:23:28 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-68-74-112-145.dsl.emhril.ameritech.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PsSw+JhuKzW6NPFIuvNWl1gVQIk= 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20115 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20115 Pascal Bourguignon writes: > Yes, I too have always difficulties to (re)find how to do it. > > It's because of having a public find-info-file or whatever command > that could be found with apropos, they've implemented the feature with > a prefix argument. Silly if you ask me. > > So the answer is to use C-u: C-u C-h i Thanks posters. I think maybe Eli has some influence on the `i' (index) search... maybe if it is not already obvious and easy to find with index search, he will fix that. I didn't find it that way, but I am sort of notorious for not thinking of obviuos stings to search for.