From: Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com>
Subject: Re: how to open an uninstalled info file from within emacs
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:40:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smzz78oi.fsf@defun.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1032877016.19290.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jonas Steverud wrote:
>
>> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> writes:
>>
>> > 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?
It's probably hard to guess, but `C-h k C-h i' would have told you. The
node "(emacs)Misc Help" also mentions it.
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2002-09-24 14:40 ` Jesper Harder [this message]
2002-09-24 17:55 ` how to open an uninstalled info file from within emacs Thomas F. Burdick
[not found] <mailman.1032873383.12862.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2002-09-24 13:23 ` Klaus Berndl
2002-09-24 13:33 ` Jonas Steverud
2002-09-24 14:17 ` Robert P. J. Day
2002-09-24 13:17 Robert P. J. Day
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