From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Search through emacs' help? Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:12:30 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: References: <424b1f61$0$27194$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1112220852 12533 80.91.229.2 (30 Mar 2005 22:14:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:14:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 31 00:14:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGlQz-0001ud-BV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:13:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DGlhZ-0000i3-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:30:17 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: individual.net dNhOCAMbitSg4O92E8u3OwOdryOoLiD7y5ab5iNazvIy8lgYer X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZKyZ7HQP5ichpoKm9FCMlS+YzUE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129752 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:25306 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25306 Sebastian Schubert writes: > is it possible to really search through emacs' help? I mean for > example if I search how to check spelling I want to enter "spelling" > somewhere and want to get help. Is that possible? If all else fails, you could read the documentation. Right at the top of the Emacs manual it is mentioned that "h" will take you to an Info tutorial. Anyway, here is how to look at "spell" via the index: C-h i d m emacs RET i spell RET You can also select the Emacs manual from the Help menu, then type i spell RET -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum