From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sean Sieger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs manual Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:07:23 -0400 Message-ID: <874owwvbz8.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87tz4zmfn6.fsf@gmail.com> <83vdpf43iz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239372501 6606 80.91.229.12 (10 Apr 2009 14:08:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:08:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 10 16:09:40 2009 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 1LsHQI-0000Ow-RB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:09:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49868 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LsHOu-000884-3L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LsHOQ-00086O-Mf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LsHOM-00085x-6S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:07:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55863 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LsHOM-00085u-1U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:42900 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 1LsHOL-0004aV-E5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LsHOI-0001rl-6l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:07:34 +0000 Original-Received: from pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net ([70.18.28.77]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:07:34 +0000 Original-Received: from sean.sieger by pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:07:34 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-70-18-28-77.ny325.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:aAt/bPhYwGACxRI7f718Soadd30= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:63628 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii 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!