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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: 1761@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1761: 23.0.60; Can't reach info nodes that aren't in TOC
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:11:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bpuqcbt6.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fxk2t9uw.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> (David Abrahams's message of "Fri\, 02 Jan 2009 03\:01\:27 -0500")

David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> This is arguably a feature request, but it seems so glaring that you
> might consider it a bug.  If I'm in an xterm and type `info dbus' I get
> a nice info session about emacs/dbus integration.  But there doesn't
> seem to be any way to visit the same page from within emacs using
> info-mode other than `M-: (info "dbus")'.  This seems needlessly
> inconvenient.  `C-u M-x info <RET> dbus <RET>' ought to get me to the
> same node if there's no info file named "dbus" in the current working
> directory.  Also, there should be some syntax to disambiguate:
> `C-u M-x info <RET> :dbus <RET>' maybe

When you are in Info mode of Emacs, you can type "g (dbus)". This will
show you the DBus info page, if there is a corresponding file in one of
the directories of `Info-default-directory-list'.

> Thanks and regards,
> Dave

Best regards, Michael.







  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-02  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-02  8:01 bug#1761: 23.0.60; Can't reach info nodes that aren't in TOC David Abrahams
2009-01-02  9:11 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2009-01-02 14:48 ` Stephen Berman
2009-01-06 21:06   ` Juri Linkov
2009-01-06 22:17     ` Stephen Berman
2009-01-07  0:48       ` David Abrahams
2012-02-09 21:42 ` Glenn Morris
2012-02-10  9:52   ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-10 10:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-10 12:08       ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-10 15:27         ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-10 17:57           ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-12 21:20           ` Juri Linkov

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