From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [Gnus] persistent marks Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 23:32:19 +0200 Message-ID: <83bo1t45y4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87eh6r3rwo.fsf@002215fd0050.amnet.co.cr> <87wqkir8en.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87zjpe38y8.fsf@002215fd0050.amnet.co.cr> <87li0xwn41.fsf@002215fd0050.amnet.co.cr> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384032814 13706 80.91.229.3 (9 Nov 2013 21:33:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2013 21:33:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 09 22:33:38 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VfG9y-0008B0-9R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 22:33:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58374 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfG9x-0003Va-IX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 16:33:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfG9d-0003QJ-5S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 16:33:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfG9V-0005B3-M1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 16:33:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:62660) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VfG9V-0005Ax-EO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 16:33:09 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MW000400ME3GN00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 23:32:29 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MW0004WVMI5CP30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Nov 2013 23:32:29 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87li0xwn41.fsf@002215fd0050.amnet.co.cr> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94416 Archived-At: > From: ernobe > Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 10:34:06 -0600 > > have you tried reading the manual with 'C-h i'? I don't see how to > navigate it without getting lost. If I only follow the 'Up' 'Next' > 'Previous' links at the top of the page, I can get back to my > original starting point, but if I follow links within the page, I > can't hit a 'back' link to get back to my original starting point. > So I downloaded the documentation and turned it into a single .info > file, then used 'pinfo' to read it. Why there isn't a sane way to > read it within Emacs, I don't know. The sane way to read it, in Emacs and elsewhere, is to press SPC to go forward and DEL (or Backspace, if you have no DEL key) to go back. This will move you through the node tree in depth-first manner, which I presume you wanted. (If that's not what you wanted, please explain more.)