From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Documentation on the command-line? Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:36:08 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87ha31qbnr.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404232828 24827 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2014 16:40:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:40:28 +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 Jul 01 18:40:23 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X216U-0002fF-9n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:40:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48966 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X216T-0006cN-Q1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:40:21 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 58 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:/ELmzSNflaMIeGn+/57VUGNeEBI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206214 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98486 Archived-At: Sharon Kimble writes: > I'm trying to find the documentation of "fancyhdr", > part of "Texlive", and I've tried man fancyhdr, info > fancyhdr, show fancyhdr. > > but its failing on all of them. Yes :) man are the Unix manpages and they deal with Unix tools as well as Unix C programming because of their common history not to say symbiosis to this very day. info was the documentation project of the GNU people, it is hypertext just like the Internet (and the man pages, but the man much less so) - the interface of info is more bulky than the default for the man pages, which is why those are preferred by most (not all) people then and now. When the internet hit big, I would suspect some steam went of the info project. What is show? There is a man page for Emacs, and 'info emacs' gets you the Emacs FAQ. By the way, note how similar info looks to Emacs. As for man (as a tool), it is an interface to the pager less, I would think. As for packages, the kind you install on your computer, if you are on Debian or Ubuntu or some or their zillion forks, you can get an idea with 'aptitude show' - I wouldn't call this "documentation", though, but sometimes good URLs and the like can be found. > So how do I get the documentation for an emacs or a > latex package to show on the command-line please? With Emacs stuff, there is no reason to use the shell for that, use the very elaborate online-and-dynamic-and-associated help system (not on paper, and immediately updated, and written next to the code it relates to). But don't you know that already?! If not, I have news for you :) describe-function describe-mode describe-variable etc. (For more: `C-h ?' for help-for-help) Or hit `C-h k' and then whatever key - cool, isn't it? For LaTeX, there is something called "TeX by Topic" as well as the CLI tool tlmgr - go fish :) -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573