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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Opening an info page by command name, take 2
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:12:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <utzmownyn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <840625.36398.qm@web25412.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> (rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de)

> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:49:59 +0100 (CET)
> From: <rdiezmail-emacs@yahoo.de>
> 
> Unfortunately, I'm still missing one piece of the equation: how do I
> know the Info page name beforehand?
> 
> Say I want to get help about grep and also about gzip. With man I would
> just type "man grep" and "man gzip". From the command line I can type
> "info grep" and "info gzip" and get similar pages. With emacs, if I
> only now the words "grep" and "gzip", I cannot open those pages.

Yes, you can, as others have shown.

In addition, there's "M-x info-apropos", for those situations where
you don't even know the name of the program/package in whose manual
you will find the topic you want to read about.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-12  4:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-11 20:49 Opening an info page by command name, take 2 rdiezmail-emacs
2007-12-11 21:30 ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-12-11 21:48   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-12  4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-12-13  9:09 ` Stephen Berman
2007-12-13 10:56   ` Sebastian Tennant
2007-12-13 12:34     ` Stephen Berman
     [not found] <mailman.4893.1197406212.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-11 23:09 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-12 17:11   ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-12-13 11:16 ` 方旭亮

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