search Emacs Lisp Intro

search Emacs Lisp Intro

[drain]

Self-explanatory title: is there a function to search the Emacs Lisp Intro
within Emacs?



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RE: search Emacs Lisp Intro

[Drew Adams]

> Self-explanatory title: is there a function to search the 
> Emacs Lisp Intro within Emacs?

C-h i
Choose that manual.
C-s, as for any other Info manual.

If repeating C-s does not search across sections of the manual, then you have an
older Emacs version, so use `s', not `C-s'.

But it is usually better to find topics using `i' (index access) than by
searching.

Try also reading the manual about Info itself.  It explains all of this and much
more.

RE: search Emacs Lisp Intro

[drain]

Drew Adams wrote
> If repeating C-s does not search across sections of the manual, then you
> have an
> older Emacs version, so use `s', not `C-s'.

C-s = I-search
s = regexp search

Emacs version: 24.2.50.1

Is all in order?



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RE: search Emacs Lisp Intro

[Drew Adams]

> > If repeating C-s does not search across sections of the
       ^^^^^^^^^                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > manual, then you have an older Emacs version, so use `s',
> > not `C-s'.
> 
> C-s = I-search
> s = regexp search
> Emacs version: 24.2.50.1
> Is all in order?

s always works, in all versions
C-s in older versions does not search more than one node at at time.

Re: search Emacs Lisp Intro

[Aidan Gauland]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> But it is usually better to find topics using `i' (index access) than
> by searching.

Also try `I' (capital `i'), which returns a "virtual index."

> Try also reading the manual about Info itself.  It explains all of
> this and much more.

I second this.