From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Documentation on the command-line?
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:46:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbrhqb66.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87oax9f62v.fsf@skimble.plus.com
Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> 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.
>
> So how do I get the documentation for an emacs or a latex package to
> show on the command-line please?
If you've got texlive-doc (or similarly-named package) installed, the
texdoc command-line utility is what you want. It opens up the PDF
documentation for a package, which is arguably a really annoying way to
read documentation, but that's what Texlive comes with. So "texdoc
fancyhdr" might do it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-01 16:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-01 15:32 Documentation on the command-line? Sharon Kimble
2014-07-01 16:46 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2014-07-01 18:40 ` Sharon Kimble
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2014-07-01 21:12 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] <mailman.4651.1404228752.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-01 16:36 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-01 18:53 ` Sharon Kimble
[not found] ` <mailman.4672.1404240819.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-01 20:58 ` Emanuel Berg
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2014-07-01 22:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-02 1:44 ` Robert Thorpe
[not found] <mailman.4692.1404265508.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-07-02 8:05 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-07-03 2:24 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-07-03 2:46 ` Bob Proulx
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