From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Davison Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info reference syntax Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:12:48 +0000 Message-ID: <20090109211248.GS10452@stats.ox.ac.uk> References: <20090109192209.GQ10452@stats.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231535619 9078 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2009 21:13:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:13:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs mailing list Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 09 22:14:48 2009 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 1LLOgp-0000Aw-24 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:14:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48814 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLOfZ-0002v6-51 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:13:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLOfC-0002ud-Tx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:13:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLOfC-0002u5-CT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:13:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39132 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLOfC-0002tw-1r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:13:06 -0500 Original-Received: from markov.stats.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.210.1]:59237) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LLOfB-000702-OG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:13:06 -0500 Original-Received: from blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (blackcap.stats [163.1.210.5]) by markov.stats.ox.ac.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n09LD4Fh009156 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:13:04 GMT Original-Received: by blackcap.stats.ox.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 5158) id 35F9A180A3; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:13:04 +0000 (GMT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs mailing list Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:61222 Archived-At: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:27:40PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Dan Davison wrote: > > What does this syntax mean? > > > > ,---- > > | See Info node `(viper)Top'. > > `---- > > > > Is there some way of using it to immediately access the info node > > referred to? > > M-: (info "(viper) Top") Great, thanks. That is useful to know. "(viper) Top" still seems like a pretty weird syntax. Just out of curiosity, is there some explanation? I see that the shell version is 'info filename nodename'. And according to wikipedia info was written for GNU/linux. So it's a post-linux emacs design? Wouldn't (info filename &optional nodename) have been more natural? Dan > -- http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~davison