From: Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Jump to man page buffer
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:07:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zmd6xare.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1157989359.152128.173990@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com
robert.thorpe@antenova.com writes:
> Hadron Quark wrote:
>> I have the following code mapped to f1.
>>
>> "manual-entry (current-word)"
>>
>> How to make emacs also jump to the buffer showing the resulting
>> man-page?
>>
>> thanks for any help.
>
> As a side-note, using man pages as references is trouble in systems
> that use GNU components heavily.
>
> The best docs of most of the general utilities are the info pages, the
> best docs to glibc are generally the info pages. The best/only docs to
> the kernel stuff and system utilities are the man pages.
>
Didnt know that.
I tried "info(current-word)" but it doesnt work.
How would I bring up the info for C functions then? Ideally use the info
page if it exists or else revert to the man page.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-11 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-09 20:49 Jump to man page buffer Hadron Quark
2006-09-09 21:34 ` Thorsten Bonow
2006-09-09 22:35 ` Hadron Quark
2006-09-09 22:50 ` Thorsten Bonow
2006-09-09 23:07 ` Hadron Quark
2006-09-09 23:13 ` Thorsten Bonow
2006-09-10 20:08 ` David Hansen
2006-09-11 15:26 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-09-11 15:42 ` robert.thorpe
2006-09-11 23:07 ` Hadron Quark [this message]
2006-09-12 17:17 ` David Hansen
2006-09-12 17:54 ` robert.thorpe
2006-09-12 19:27 ` David Hansen
2006-09-12 19:51 ` Drew Adams
2006-09-12 21:46 ` David Hansen
2006-09-12 22:00 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.6840.1158098039.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-13 9:40 ` robert.thorpe
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