From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Bruce Korb'" <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: how do I visit a file in info mode?
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:03:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <938FD473372B43A9A6EE53B2DFA3E3EA@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <668c430c1003011652j3ddd4e0emc79a560ddee5dd1c@mail.gmail.com>
> > So try `C-u C-h i' instead of `M-2 C-h i'.
>
> That was it. Thank you!!
> Completely unclear why it was necessary to change it, though.
Most changes are not strictly necessary. ;-)
The more common use of a prefix arg is as `C-u'. A numeric prefix arg sometimes
serves, like here, to provide a numeric value (or to provide some other
alternative behavior).
In this case, from the doc string (`C-h k C-h i'):
"In interactive use, a non-numeric prefix argument directs
this command to read a file name from the minibuffer.
A numeric prefix argument selects an Info buffer with the
prefix number appended to the Info buffer name."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-02 1:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-02 0:12 how do I visit a file in info mode? Bruce Korb
2010-03-02 0:27 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-03-02 0:28 ` Drew Adams
2010-03-02 0:52 ` Bruce Korb
2010-03-02 1:03 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2010-03-02 1:21 ` Bruce Korb
2010-03-02 3:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-03-02 4:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
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