From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Opening an info page by command name, take 2 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:12:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <840625.36398.qm@web25412.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197432798 25186 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2007 04:13:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:13:18 +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 12 05:13:30 2007 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 4.50) id 1J2IyM-0006zN-FX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:13:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2Iy4-0006GL-4z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:13:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2Ixl-0006Ev-6c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:12:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2Ixj-0006EL-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:12:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2Ixj-0006EE-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:12:47 -0500 Original-Received: from nitzan.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J2Ixj-0003ZB-G3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:12:47 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-163-179.inter.net.il [80.230.163.179]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id INQ31379 (AUTH halo1); Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:09:57 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <840625.36398.qm@web25412.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:50028 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:49:59 +0100 (CET) > From: > > Unfortunately, I'm still missing one piece of the equation: how do I > know the Info page name beforehand? > > Say I want to get help about grep and also about gzip. With man I would > just type "man grep" and "man gzip". From the command line I can type > "info grep" and "info gzip" and get similar pages. With emacs, if I > only now the words "grep" and "gzip", I cannot open those pages. Yes, you can, as others have shown. In addition, there's "M-x info-apropos", for those situations where you don't even know the name of the program/package in whose manual you will find the topic you want to read about.