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bug#1761: 23.0.60; Can't reach info nodes that aren't in TOC
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Juri Linkov |
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bug#1761: 23.0.60; Can't reach info nodes that aren't in TOC |
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Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:06:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> This is arguably a feature request, but it seems so glaring that you
>> might consider it a bug. If I'm in an xterm and type `info dbus' I get
>> a nice info session about emacs/dbus integration. But there doesn't
>> seem to be any way to visit the same page from within emacs using
>> info-mode other than `M-: (info "dbus")'. This seems needlessly
>> inconvenient. `C-u M-x info <RET> dbus <RET>' ought to get me to the
>> same node if there's no info file named "dbus" in the current working
>> directory. Also, there should be some syntax to disambiguate:
>> `C-u M-x info <RET> :dbus <RET>' maybe
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> I also wanted something like that, so I wrote this as a start:
But "g (dbus)" already can complete on a file name when point is located
after the opening parenthesis.
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Juri Linkov
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