From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Documentation on the command-line? Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 09:46:41 -0700 Message-ID: <87vbrhqb66.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87oax9f62v.fsf@skimble.plus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404233261 30039 80.91.229.3 (1 Jul 2014 16:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 16:47:41 +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 18:47:34 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 1X21DQ-0007KO-QT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:47:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48996 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X21DQ-0001uV-AJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X21D4-0001k7-EV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:47:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X21Cr-0002rA-PA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:47:10 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46702) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X21Cr-0002qv-Hk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:46:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X21Cn-0006vd-II for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:46:53 +0200 Original-Received: from 63.226.249.211 ([63.226.249.211]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:46:53 +0200 Original-Received: from eric by 63.226.249.211 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Jul 2014 18:46:53 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.226.249.211 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uBhiprzCFZqwj+A0ZUSObNweW3A= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:98488 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. > > 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.