From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giorgos Keramidas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs? Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:10:28 +0200 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <87tzzurrm3.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <458268D7.6020203@163.com> <1166191335.058714.266970@80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com> <1166194633.486698.321520@n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166442095 6007 80.91.229.10 (18 Dec 2006 11:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:41:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 18 12:41:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GwGs4-0003gu-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:41:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GwGs4-00086e-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:41:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tiscali.de!uio.no!news.banetele.no!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:xfg4wTguktERFhqRcy8U1C8rd9U= Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.103.39.229 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=kZeOYEM4U9c2IML^Mjg2:ak; I7eU]gGb30c[>DY7k2Vi:]; O 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:39684 Archived-At: On 15 Dec 2006 06:57:13 -0800, "Robert Thorpe" wrote: >Hadron Quark wrote: >>"Robert Thorpe" writes: >>> It's not documented by Emacs, it's documented in the Info docs that >>> come with GLibc. >> >> I installed the glibc info package on my ubuntu system. restarted >> emacs. Here are some outputs from the info pages for glibc and the man >> pages for printf: >> >> (a) man page using manual-entry(current-word): >> >> ,---- >> | PRINTF(3) Linux Programmer's Manual >> >> Surely the man pages are superior in this instance for a programmer? > > It depends. [...] > The man-page is quite thorough in this case, but it is a little > confusing in one respect, It says "Linux Programmer's Manual". I > have no idea why it says this, since printf is provided by Glibc. That's because man pages are organized in sections. The section title for manpages in section 3 is "Linux Programmer's Manual" on Linux. On other systems, section 3 may have a slightly different title. Here, for instance, on a FreeBSD system, the title is: PRINTF(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual PRINTF(3)