From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-find-source Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:33:32 -0700 Message-ID: <20180113142406060431793@bob.proulx.com> References: <86shbcdpr5.fsf@zoho.com> <86po6eke67.fsf@zoho.com> <86inc6kbyb.fsf@zoho.com> <867esmk28h.fsf@zoho.com> <87r2qtd9u2.fsf@mbork.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1515879145 14530 195.159.176.226 (13 Jan 2018 21:32:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:32:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 13 22:32:21 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eaTPW-0003Ij-8D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 22:32:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaTRV-0006q9-Ur for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:34:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38618) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaTQo-0006p5-A3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:33:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaTQl-0006Hp-7W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:33:38 -0500 Original-Received: from havoc.proulx.com ([96.88.95.61]:37489) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eaTQl-0006G2-26 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 16:33:35 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by havoc.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66DC41605 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:33:33 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28480217E5 for ; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:33:33 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 047AE2DC6B; Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:33:32 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87r2qtd9u2.fsf@mbork.pl> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 96.88.95.61 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115703 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Drew Adams wrote: > > Emanuel Berg wrote: > >> Another example where info is slower is this > >> very common situation. > >> 1. You look something up with info and use it. > >> 2. You look something else up and use that. > >> 3, or I mean 1b - because the first thing > >> didn't quite work! Now, with info, you have to > >> navigate back to that node to see what it > >> really said. And maybe between steps 1 and 2, > >> you looked up something else still, which you > >> didn't use, which might even belong to some > >> different program, etc. etc.! There are some documentation pages that I refer to often. This is typically when I am trying to learn a new feature. I haven't committed the details into long term memory yet. I need to get back to those pages often. If I do that twice in a row then I set an emacs bookmark on the info page I am wanting to get back to often. Let's say that is (intentionally recursive) emacs book marks. Afer navigating to the page I want to refer to again: C-x r m (bookmark-set) q (Info-exit) So then I am going along and doing whatever. Then I want to refer to that documentation again. I've bookmarked it. I bring up the bookmark menu. C-x r l (bookmark-bmenu-list) % Bookmark File (emacs) Bookmarks /usr/share/info/emacs-25/emacs I use C-n C-p (or n and p), or C-s to search down to it, to move the selection to the bookmark I want. Then Enter to select it. With the selection on the Bookmarks line above Enter takes me immediately back to that node and the documentation I am wanting. > > `M-n' (`clone-buffer') is your friend. > > Wow, yet another gift from Info! Thanks again! Cool! That is also a new feature I did not know about either. I can think of several cases where this is going to be very useful to me. Thank you for this very interesting hint! > Sometimes when using Emacs I feel like a child in a toy store. With the > parents' credit card. ;-P Well said! Me too! :-) Bob