Re: emacs manual

[Sean Sieger <sean.sieger@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

    In an Info manual, there are node names and there are section names.
    A section name is what you see at the beginning of the section;
    "22 File Handling" is an example.  The corresponding node name appears
    in the mode line, where you should see "(emacs) Files", which tells
    you that you are in the node "Files" of the "emacs" manual.

    The `m' command wants a node name, not the name of a section.  More
    accurately, it wants the name of a menu item.  Normally, menu items
    are just node names, but sometimes they also have an additional menu
    entry name.  Here are two examples:

         * Files::                       All about handling files.
         * Multiples: Buffers.           Multiple buffers; editing
                                          several files at once.

    The reason the `m' command does not work on section names is because
    it looks at the menu entries, not at the list of all the sections in
    the manual.  And section names do not appear in the menu entries.

Thank you for explaining this Eli.  I'll start noting the mode line of
*info* buffers.  Right, and now to go and understand the syntax of,
(info "(emacs)Files")---I can never remember it!