From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reader@newsguy.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: some info node manuals have no index Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:50:33 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87fxxufd46.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87abo3uu8o.fsf@newsguy.com> <8AC188F4-9A53-4E27-AC16-3BA09B6D6306@Web.DE> <87wsr6fmmy.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198371814 31482 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2007 01:03:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 01:03:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 23 02:03:46 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 1J6FFq-0003LS-Hu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:03:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J6FFW-0007WY-KE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:03:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J6FEf-00070S-EV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:02:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J6FEd-0006z1-ML for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:02:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J6FEd-0006yh-E0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:02:31 -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 1J6FEc-0004hn-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:02:31 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1J6FBB-000181-0c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:58:57 +0000 Original-Received: from adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net ([75.3.178.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:58:56 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 23 Dec 2007 00:58:56 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-75-3-178-22.dsl.chcgil.sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mU8Eo+W/SoBcuRr0hMzz2FeTbkc= 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:50296 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 22.12.2007 um 22:24 schrieb reader: > >> Emacs will open the gawk manual fine, but when asked to do `i' search >> I get `no index'. > > > You are writing of things I'm sure I've never noticed in GNU Emacs! Its never happened to me before either! > When I'm in info-mode at the top-level node of gawk and I type ``i´´ I > get invited to search for a word, or such. > > Or do you mean the isearch function, C-s? No I mean just what you did above. > Finally, is /usr/share/info/gawk.info.bz2 really the gawk info file? > While you're in info-mode visiting some gawk node, you can type C-x d > RET to see where you are ... On my sytem yes. The info browser knows how to open it with no problem. It also opens info /usr/share/info/gawk.info.bz2 opens it right up as does: C-u C-h i /usr/share/info/gawk.info.bz2 in emacs