From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: how do I visit a file in info mode? Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:03:15 -0800 Message-ID: <938FD473372B43A9A6EE53B2DFA3E3EA@us.oracle.com> References: <4B8C5803.6090201@gmail.com> <9667A1A3265745E1926D77A9E5864F4A@us.oracle.com> <668c430c1003011652j3ddd4e0emc79a560ddee5dd1c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267491903 6716 80.91.229.12 (2 Mar 2010 01:05:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:05:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Bruce Korb'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 02 02:04:57 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmGXg-0001p0-UT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:04:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmGXg-0007VF-8t for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:04:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NmGXF-0007UX-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:04:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54100 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NmGXF-0007U7-3C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:04:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmGXE-0006qa-AB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet12.oracle.com ([148.87.113.124]:45454) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NmGXE-0006qT-2G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id o2214Pw6000401 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:04:26 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt355.oracle.com (acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id o21JAmG6014206; Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:04:24 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt017.oracle.com by acsmt355.oracle.com with ESMTP id 57493521267491797; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:03:17 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.179.75) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:03:16 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <668c430c1003011652j3ddd4e0emc79a560ddee5dd1c@mail.gmail.com> Thread-Index: Acq5oqlRmdUu8gTsSCu/nsyx15eI5wAAPspA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-Source-IP: acsmt355.oracle.com [141.146.40.155] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090206.4B8C6418.0170:SCFMA4539814,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72283 Archived-At: > > 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."