From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Opening an info page by command name, take 2 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:49:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <840625.36398.qm@web25412.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Reply-To: rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197406252 16434 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2007 20:50:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:50:52 +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 Dec 11 21:51:03 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 1J2C41-0007Jz-CL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:50:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2C3j-0005CU-MF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:50:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2C3P-00057U-Tr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2C3L-0004y7-Az for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2C3L-0004xl-6H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: from web25412.mail.ukl.yahoo.com ([217.12.10.203]) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J2C3K-0005rk-DU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:50:07 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 37241 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Dec 2007 20:49:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.de; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=TBj2PFHRaJpInzxr2PoQa2wwSrb/iIV8EoWlzifXhqxSpoYMuf8cOLUvkNwgJBYWckp6qVjB5F2n3cEMiw1ceGjsehqkCU7t1ab3m61ld0CnJbT7twI2bnvJeaxY09ijJpkcKLl4qw302gS5hO3fwqnYjY3sApq2tP9Wl0FHbMM=; X-YMail-OSG: g9CMczYVM1k58pdfbJ1nBfuXxdU8Z9Mmw3QcGVq_ewuwUoB_1jH5bMXUMKB9CP6ZjfLyT4VTcwbIVp3NtIsC8LgQ67qoY2OAh6AnpygQpx1TQykbxMmTL3PdLY8- Original-Received: from [62.143.221.128] by web25412.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:49:59 CET X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:50016 Archived-At: Hi all: I recently posted in this list about opening an Info page in emacs by command name, and I did get some replies, thanks a lot. Unfortunately, I'm still missing one piece of the equation: how do I know the Info page name beforehand? Say I want to get help about grep and also about gzip. With man I would just type "man grep" and "man gzip". From the command line I can type "info grep" and "info gzip" and get similar pages. With emacs, if I only now the words "grep" and "gzip", I cannot open those pages. For example, these are two suggestions I got on my last post: emacs -Q --eval '(info "(bash3ref)Arrays")' emacsclientw -e "(info \"(elisp) Lists\")" The question is, where did "(bash3ref)Arrays" and "(elisp) Lists" come from? You would have to browse the Info pages beforehand, wouldn't you? But that defeats the purpose. I would want to call some (info "bash") routine and get the same page as with "info bash" from the command line, but the info routine in emacs does not find the same page, it doesn't find anything under "bash" or "grep" or "gzip" alone. Thanks again, Ruben __________________________________ Ihr erstes Baby? Holen Sie sich Tipps von anderen Eltern. www.yahoo.de/clever