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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info-lookup-symbol
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:50:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <461A52A6.3050209@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pan.2007.04.09.14.20.45@no.spam.plz>

Rehceb Rotkiv wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:48:00 +0200, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> 
>> I am using MS Windows and I am just wondering where "break" is on my
>> keyboard.
> 
> It's not a key, but a string that you enter literally! When you are in 
> Info mode, i.e. looking at an info document in Emacs, you can use the 
> function "Info-index", which is bound to "i" by default, to search for a 
> string in the index of the info file -- in this case the Python keyword 
> "break". And as Eli told me, when you press <TAB> instead of <RET> after 
> entering the search string, you get a list of alle index entries 
> containing the search string. Try it out, it's very useful!
> 
> HTH,
> Rehceb


Ah, thanks. Normal Emacs completion. I have actually never used that in 
Info ;-)

Yes, that seems useful. I normally just use C-s in Info to free text 
search across nodes. It is does not take very long time to do this (if 
you know what you are looking for, of course).

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-09 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-08 23:07 info-lookup-symbol Rehceb Rotkiv
2007-04-09  6:57 ` info-lookup-symbol Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1850.1176102070.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-09 12:05   ` info-lookup-symbol Rehceb Rotkiv
2007-04-09 12:48     ` info-lookup-symbol Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1864.1176123114.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-09 14:20       ` info-lookup-symbol Rehceb Rotkiv
2007-04-09 14:50         ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-04-09 18:15           ` info-lookup-symbol Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-09 15:27     ` info-lookup-symbol Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-05 17:35 info-lookup-symbol Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-06  7:51 ` info-lookup-symbol Juri Linkov

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