From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jim Diamond Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:31:26 -0300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <1s1veayqka.fsf@xoc2.stanford.edu> 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 1273062859 20550 80.91.229.12 (5 May 2010 12:34:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 12:34:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 05 14:34:15 2010 connect(): No such file or directory 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 1O9dnp-0001kw-CZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 14:34:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33538 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9dno-0004az-PF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 May 2010 08:34:12 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED.142.177.139.53!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Injection-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:31:26 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: feeder.eternal-september.org; posting-host="142.177.139.53"; logging-data="28746"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org" User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177817 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 May 2010 16:55:39 -0400 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:73424 Archived-At: On 2010-04-20 at 14:36 ADT, Glenn Morris wrote: > Jim Diamond wrote: > >> On 2010-03-21 at 18:02 ADT, Jeff Clough wrote: >> >>> Emacs does PDFs out of the box, >> >> Using either 23.1 or 24.0.50, "apropos" has very little to say about PDFs. > Don't use apropos to search for a concept, instead search the manual. I guess I can't argue with that advice, given that searching the manual does help. The problem is that I thought I was looking for a function (something that read/loaded/displayed PDF files), not a concept. Perhaps I am missing a lot of functionality of emacs which would be useful, but I've always (up until now) found what I wanted with apropos. Sometimes I've followed that up with looking in the manual, but rarely have I needed to. Anyway, thanks for the (*ahem*) info. Jim