From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to open a particular info page by command name Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:20:52 +0200 Message-ID: <873aujqpi3.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> References: <465678.94409.qm@web25403.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <47549A61.7090208@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196727703 17025 80.91.229.12 (4 Dec 2007 00:21:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:21:43 +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 04 01:21:52 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 1IzLXs-0007zS-9K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 01:21:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzLXb-0001hq-KV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:21:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzLXI-0001c6-Mg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:21:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IzLXG-0001Xx-Re for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:21:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IzLXG-0001Xn-PA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IzLXG-0000ea-J1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:21:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IzLX6-0003rP-Uk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:21:04 +0000 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:21:04 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:21:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:TJ0GqO+SPPvS6SRMCdkscoSb21I= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:49805 Archived-At: Quoth "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" : > rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de wrote: >> 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. > 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") $ emacs -Q --no-site-file --eval '(info "(bash3ref)Arrays")' Works for me. HTH, Sebastian