From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Let `C-h i' open all Info buffers that were quit? 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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57783 Archived-At: > If you quit Info and reenter, apparently only the first Info buffer is > reentered (displayed) - the clones are not. The clone Info > buffers are still available, so you can get to them, e.g., via > `C-x C-b', but `C-h i' doesn't automatically display them. You need to give `C-h i' an argument. For example, `C-u 3 C-h i' goes to the buffer `*info*<3>'. Ah, I missed that when (mis)reading the doc string. I knew about regular `C-u', but I missed the part about numeric prefix. I notice that if there is no *info<8>* and you use `C-u 8 C-h i', then a new *info<8>* is opened. And if you rename *info<3>* to Regexp Node, then the `C-u N' technique doesn't help. Still, it's very good. > Anyway, my real suggestion here is this: It would be handy if > `C-h i' opened (displayed) *all* of the Info buffers. Perhaps what you lack is this piece of information: `C-x C-b' shows the Info manual's identification next to its *info* buffer name, instead of the file name for buffers that have an associated file. So, if what you want is a fast way of getting back to a specific Info buffer, type `C-x C-b' and select the manual you want from the list. No, I wasn't missing that information. That's why I mentioned `C-x C-b'. The manual name doesn't help if you have 7 Info buffers pointing to the same manual. Without the node name, I can't use `C-x C-b' in this way most of the time: I don't necessarily have just one Info buffer per manual. If the node name were displayed in `C-x C-b', and if it were pointed out in the doc string of `q' that you can use `C-x C-b' to get back to the Info buffer, then that might be better than having `C-h i' display all Info buffers. And why not let `C-u 0 C-h i' display all Info buffers, if that's what you really want at some time? Right now, this just opens a new Info buffer named *info*<0> (which is not the same as *info*). This change could be made before figuring out how to add the node name to the buffer list. It would be trivial to implement and I, for one, would use it. I often have a set of related nodes open at the same time. I close them for a while, and then I want to get back to them all again, later. And it would still be good to have an Info binding of, say, `x', to do `C-x k'. I implemented this feature because I couldn't remember which buffer has what manual. It's a good feature; thank you. I'm also interested in knowing which buffer has which node of which manual.