From: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, 1761@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#1761: 23.0.60; Can't reach info nodes that aren't in TOC
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:48:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljtondpm.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sknw13lo.fsf@escher.local.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:17:39 +0100")
on Tue Jan 06 2009, Stephen Berman <stephen.berman-AT-gmx.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:06:38 +0200 Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> wrote:
>
>>>> 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
>>>
>>> I also wanted something like that, so I wrote this as a start:
>>
>> But "g (dbus)" already can complete on a file name when point is located
>> after the opening parenthesis.
>
>>From within Info, yes, but the purpose of the function I wrote (and what
> I understood the OP to be requesting) is to open any info file with a
> single command invocation when you're not in Info mode.
That's exactly right. It's a very odd that I can type "info foo" at the
shell command-line and get what I want, but Emacs makes me look at the
entire info index before I can tell it that I'm really interested in a
section that isn't in the index.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-07 0:48 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
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 [this message]
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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