From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: info-lookup-symbol Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:50:14 +0200 Message-ID: <461A52A6.3050209@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176148595 29099 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2007 19:56:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 19:56:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 09 21:55:56 2007 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 1Hawxh-0004o7-NY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:43:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hax1X-00042d-FO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hax1H-00042J-44 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:47:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hax1F-00041z-Mg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:47:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hax1F-00041w-KG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:47:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HawxO-0002wW-V9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:43:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HavWA-0004cd-5b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:10:55 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:60049 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HavC0-000654-9R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Apr 2007 16:50:06 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000731-1, 2007-04-08), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1HavC0-000654-9R. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1HavC0-000654-9R af6d58940deb078c2bb681c21c8392e4 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:42529 Archived-At: 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 instead of 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).