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 08:26:55 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166200015.091629.150510@f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1166104989.808680.119430@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com> <1166188073.391449.47140@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> <1166193163.411240.285930@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166200996 4054 80.91.229.10 (15 Dec 2006 16:43:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:43:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 15 17:43:15 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 1GvG9Q-0004fL-4b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 17:43:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GvG9P-0008O5-Hx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:43:11 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 58 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.210 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166200070 866 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2006 16:27:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:27:50 +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 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f1g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.210; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:143977 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:39581 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: "Robert Thorpe" > > Date: 15 Dec 2006 06:32:43 -0800 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > From: "Robert Thorpe" > > > > Date: 15 Dec 2006 05:07:53 -0800 > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > Regarding Info-lookup, it could be something that's not supported on > > > > your system. It's a GNU Libc feature. > > > > > > ??? But Pawel explicitly shows (above) that he does have the GNU Libc > > > manual installed on his system. > > > > Not necessarily. There are at least two libc manuals in info format, > > the GNUlibc one and the Redhat Cygwin one. That manual also doesn't > > work with C-h C-i. > > But look above: the DIR entry clearly shows it's the GNU Libc. I can't tell from the DIR entry alone, maybe you can. On a Cygwin system for example, that line reads:- * libc: (libc). The ANSI C library. > And > "C-h i" does work with it, as Pawel said. > > Anyway, I don't understand how can the Cygwin version not work. Emacs > doesn't assume anything about the libc manual, all it needs is the > index. Are you saying that the Cygwin version of libc docs doesn't > have an index? If so, it's not the GNU Libc manual. (IIRC, Cygwin > uses newlib, not glibc.) Well I've just run Emacs21 on a Windows machine with Cygwin. C-h i gives the info page for the newlib C library. C-h C-i does not work though, I don't know why. > > > What other dependency on GNU Libc > > > could possibly defeat this feature on his system? > > > > The dir file could contain the entry, but there could be no info file. > > Again, read the original message above: Pawel says that he verified > that he did found the memset description via "C-h i". So I think > there's nothing wrong with his manual. Good point. I don't know what's wrong.