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From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
Subject: Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 07:50:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pcotzzx3b6n.fsf@shuttle.math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: elsogi$g43$1@news.yaako.com

+ Ronald <followait@163.com>:

| It works in bash.
| But in emacs, either I use`M-x info' or `C-h C-i',
| it can't display the info page.

So most likely, Info-default-directory-list is set up wrong.

| btw:
| ``man 3 printf" ,  how to do it with info?

You can't.

| What's better man, woman or info?

The manual page for woman states quite clearly that "woman is better
than man" (or used to, last time I looked at it).

That said, you have little choice.  If the information you seek is
available as a man page, use (wo)man.  If it is available as an info
file, use info.  In the (no longer very) rare cases that it is
available in both formats, the info version is usually more up-to-date
and detailed.

-- 
* Harald Hanche-Olsen     <URL:http://www.math.ntnu.no/~hanche/>
- It is undesirable to believe a proposition
  when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
  -- Bertrand Russell

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-15  6:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-14 23:59 Why I can't use `info' in emacs? Ronald
2006-12-15  6:50 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2006-12-15  7:15   ` Ronald
2006-12-15 12:40     ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-15 14:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-15  8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1908.1166172009.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-15  9:20   ` Ronald
2006-12-15 11:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1911.1166181447.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-15 13:49       ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-15 14:02         ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-15 14:13           ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-15 14:25           ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-15 14:57             ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-15 15:49               ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-15 17:41                 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-18  0:10               ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-12-18 11:51                 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-20  1:13                   ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-12-20 16:51                     ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-15 15:57             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1922.1166198262.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-15 16:27               ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-15 18:11                 ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-16 19:21                   ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-16 21:51                     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                     ` <mailman.1996.1166305877.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-16 22:30                       ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-17  4:12                         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                         ` <mailman.2006.1166328762.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-12-18 12:54                           ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-18 20:01                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-18 10:44                     ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-18 12:56                       ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-18 13:12                         ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-18 17:11                           ` Hadron Quark
2006-12-18 17:27                             ` Robert Thorpe
2006-12-16 12:04                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-15  9:20   ` Ronald

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