Re: How to open a particular info page by command name

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> In the command-line (outside emacs) I can do "man xxx" to get help
> about a Unix command, and "info xxx" to get help in the form of info
> pages.
> 
> I easily found how to do "man xxx" within emacs and comfortably browse
> the help pages, I'm using the "woman" module at the moment (it comes
> with emacs). I even wrote a small shell script to turn emacs into a
> handy man page viewer:
> 
> emacs --no-splash --eval "(progn (setq woman-use-own-frame nil) (woman
> \"$1\"))" &
> 
> Unfortunately, I couldn't find how to do the same with the info pages.
> 
> Don't get me wrong: I don't want to manually open the root info page
> and click around; I want to type the name of a command (say gcc) and
> get the same page I would get if I typed "info gcc" in the console, but
> inside the built-in emacs info page viewer.
> 
> I've searched with Google and browsed the Lisp code of the info module
> to no avail. Can someone help me?


If you can figure out how to do the quoting (I can't) then it is no 
problem. What you want to call is someting like

    (info "(elisp) That Page")