From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: looking up function's doc in emacs Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:47:09 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86myf2wyz6.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229010288 22162 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2008 15:44:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:44:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 16:45:52 2008 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 1LAnj2-00088W-US for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:45:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LAnhr-0000bl-BF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2008 10:44:03 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Followup-To: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net +a6Z3cb2xNSocS+ipBLmkHDzwe7EhfGxhc3ufSjP4vHrp5SDgLGi4aB1eT1UpKarW1Qp1U+EtDrOmp7uihEinm7iY5QCO6DIqEumcvUxDVL582av3l1KkLhhwy1hVGU8 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:47:32 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: Tmla4/i4K6MHEhRa+0N3jjMaXzCozzbQrFJmukz91iw= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:MrThPhiycfVUeRdrQHiLJE9lHdE= sha1:6hOwBj5OyjQa7Lmk1XHULJ5+n3Y= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: +/ZfbqTFmmCK2g0LELXFn+eIh4qacKBr+h7+KbRwPBc= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165228 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:60556 Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:12:44 -0800 (PST) Xah Lee wrote: XL> in programing elisp in emacs, i can press “Ctrl+h f” to lookup the doc XL> for the function under cursor. XL> is there such facility when coding in perl, python, php? XL> (i'm interested in particular python. In perl, i can work around with XL> “perldoc -f functionName”, and in php it's php.net/functionName. Both XL> of which i have a elisp command with a shortcut that let me jump to XL> the doc) cperl-mode has perldoc access, just look under the Perl->Perl Docs menu for the keyboart shortcut. I generally don't use it, personally, because from the command line I can do zsh completion (e.g. "perldoc -f " will show a completion list of all the documented functions and "perldof List::" will show all the available List::* modules). Ted