From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info reference syntax
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:00:57 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xeadnQhjbrvQ6vbUnZ2dnUVZ_gOdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4438.1231535588.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Dan Davison wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:27:40PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> What does this syntax mean?
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | See Info node `(viper)Top'.
>>> `----
>>>
>>> Is there some way of using it to immediately access the info node
>>> referred to?
>> M-: (info "(viper) Top")
>
> Great, thanks. That is useful to know.
>
> "(viper) Top" still seems like a pretty weird syntax. Just out of
> curiosity, is there some explanation? I see that the shell version is
> 'info filename nodename'. And according to wikipedia info was written
> for GNU/linux. So it's a post-linux emacs design? Wouldn't
>
> (info filename &optional nodename)
>
> have been more natural?
>
> Dan
This is essentially what it is. Try C-h f info and you read:
"
info is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `info.el'.
It is bound to C-h i, <f1> i, <help> i.
(info &optional FILE-OR-NODE BUFFER)
Enter Info, the documentation browser.
Optional argument FILE-OR-NODE specifies the file to examine;
the default is the top-level directory of Info.
Called from a program, FILE-OR-NODE may specify an Info node of the form
`(FILENAME)NODENAME'.
Optional argument BUFFER specifies the Info buffer name;
the default buffer name is *info*. If BUFFER exists,
just switch to BUFFER. Otherwise, create a new buffer
with the top-level Info directory.
"
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 19:22 info reference syntax Dan Davison
2009-01-09 19:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-01-09 21:12 ` Dan Davison
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2009-01-12 13:56 ` Xah Lee
2009-01-12 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-12 17:00 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
[not found] <mailman.4426.1231528955.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-12 16:51 ` B. T. Raven
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