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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.


-- 

  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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