From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: How can I select a .info file for info mode? Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:50:51 -0800 Message-ID: <000b01c968c1$01ac3690$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <4956B2A5.2050106@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1230450688 27492 80.91.229.12 (28 Dec 2008 07:51:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:51:28 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Bruce Korb'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 28 08:52:36 2008 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 1LGqRw-0008Rj-Hg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:52:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34339 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGqQi-0004Ny-Vw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:51:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGqQS-0004Ns-5x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:51:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LGqQP-0004Ng-Oq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38981 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LGqQP-0004Nd-Ja for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:64063) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LGqQP-00021B-1f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LGqQK-0003vi-Dy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:50:56 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBS7oNPk019687 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:50:24 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt700.oracle.com (acsmt700.oracle.com [141.146.40.70]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mBS7pJu5025729; Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:51:20 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.171.49) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:50:47 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <4956B2A5.2050106@gmail.com> Thread-Index: AcloplvAuzxQ9jhjSD+UbOemVw1L6wAGhAUg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt700.oracle.com [141.146.40.70] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.49572FD8.021D:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:60945 Archived-At: > It used to be the case that ``ESC-2 CTL-h i'' gave me the opportunity > to select the .info file to use for info mode. Not any more. > Plowing through the docs doesn't give me a good enough hint about > how to do it either. Please tell me there is still a way to do this? > Searching keybindings did not yield anything promising either. > I guess I could read the elisp for the previous emacs and my current > one, but that is too far over the top for me. I don't grok elisp > very well anyway. Yes, `ESC-2 C-h i' (or `M-2 C-h i') works in Emacs before the Emacs 22 release. Dunno if this change was intentional or is a bug - you might check the NEWS file to see. If it was not intentional, then you might want to report a bug using `M-x report-emacs-bug'. In any case, you can still use `C-u C-h i' to do the same thing - it prompts you for the Info file to use.