From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Finding a easy way for prototype tipping Date: 15 Dec 2006 05:07:53 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166188073.391449.47140@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> References: <1166104989.808680.119430@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166190095 27130 80.91.229.10 (15 Dec 2006 13:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 15 14:41:34 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GvDJZ-0003GM-D4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:41:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GvDJY-00075p-SS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:41:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 163.244.62.65 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166188093 2068 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2006 13:08:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:08:13 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF1ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=163.244.62.65; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143955 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:39559 Archived-At: Pawel wrote: > > reading the info files not the man pages. To do this, when point is on > > a function name type C-h C-i and it will jump to the relevant part of > > the Glibc manual. > when I press C-h C-i on, let's say memset function in my *.c file, I get the following error: > Symbol's value as variable is void: Info-mode-map > > To make sure that info pages contain information on memset I found one with C-h i, in entry: > * Libc: (libc). C library. > > That's it > > -- Function: void * memset (void *BLOCK, int C, size_t SIZE) > This function copies the value of C (converted to an `unsigned > char') into each of the first SIZE bytes of the object beginning > at BLOCK. It returns the value of BLOCK. > > Is there something wrong with my system? Well, probably something is wrong, because of the error on "Info-mode-map". The mode map really has nothing to do with this function, so I don't know why the error should occur. Regarding Info-lookup, it could be something that's not supported on your system. It's a GNU Libc feature.