From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info anchor not working in emacs23
Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 20:40:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4ohyf84g.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b19b073f-0151-469c-a7f7-4095fe5fda7f@d12g2000vbr.googlegroups.com
> wouldn't the above be equivalent to doing in emacs?
> C-x C-f ./test.info
> M-: (Info-mode)
No, not at all. Calling Info-mode manually will mostly not work.
Info is fairly special in this way (and it's clearly a misfeature).
You can try M-x Info-on-current-buffer which tries to turn a buffer
containing a .info file into a proper and mostly functional Info buffer,
but it's fairly hackish and has various quirks.
Part of the problem is that Info is basically designed around the idea
of accessing various files, so while at any given point it shows you
part of a single file, it is not really bound to a single file in the
same way as a normal file buffer.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-24 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-18 0:19 info anchor not working in emacs23 Renny John
2010-05-19 8:21 ` Alan Mackenzie
2010-05-21 15:54 ` Renny John
2010-05-22 21:54 ` Renny John
2010-05-24 0:40 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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