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: how do I visit a file in info mode? Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:17:59 +0200 Message-ID: <83bpf74ars.fsf@gnu.org> References: <4B8C5803.6090201@gmail.com> <9667A1A3265745E1926D77A9E5864F4A@us.oracle.com> <668c430c1003011652j3ddd4e0emc79a560ddee5dd1c@mail.gmail.com> <938FD473372B43A9A6EE53B2DFA3E3EA@us.oracle.com> <668c430c1003011721v7dce4de7x7f6582959fe99f8c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267503512 809 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2010 04:18:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 04:18:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 02 05:18:22 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmJYp-0002Wt-BL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:18:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40663 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmJYo-0002F1-Po for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:18:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NmJYN-0002Dm-Gy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33328 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmJYM-0002Ci-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:17:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmJYM-0005Og-4N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:17:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:59801) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmJYL-0005OV-U0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:17:50 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KYM00500ZN0D900@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:17:48 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.228.54.31]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KYM004DTZXNVZ20@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:17:48 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <668c430c1003011721v7dce4de7x7f6582959fe99f8c@mail.gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:72288 Archived-At: > From: Bruce Korb > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:21:55 -0800 > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > Here, the new code just quietly ignores the numeric prefix ??? How do you mean ``ignore''? If I type "C-u 100 C-h i", I get a buffer "*info*<100>" with the Info main directory. > "non-numeric prefix" is a new feature that must have cropped up in the > last 20 years. :-D It's been in Emacs since day one, actually. Maybe you are just unfamiliar with the term, which means "there is an argument, but it is not a number". > > In this case, from the doc string (`C-h k C-h i'): > > > > "In interactive use, a non-numeric prefix argument directs > > this command to read a file name from the minibuffer. > > A numeric prefix argument selects an Info buffer with the > > prefix number appended to the Info buffer name." > > I know the stuff is always documented somewhere. The problem is > finding it. The doc string of the command is not ``somewhere''. It's generally the first place to look.