Re: Finding a easy way for prototype tipping

[Robert Thorpe]

Pawel wrote:
> > reading the info files not the man pages.  To do this, when point is on
>  > a function name type C-h C-i and it will jump to the relevant part of
>  > the Glibc manual.
> when I press C-h C-i on, let's say memset function in my *.c file, I get the 
> following error:
> Symbol's value as variable is void: Info-mode-map
>
> To make sure that info pages contain information on memset I found one with 
> C-h i, in entry:
> * Libc: (libc).                 C library.
>
> That's it
>
>  -- Function: void * memset (void *BLOCK, int C, size_t SIZE)
>      This function copies the value of C (converted to an `unsigned
>      char') into each of the first SIZE bytes of the object beginning
>      at BLOCK.  It returns the value of BLOCK.
>
> Is there something wrong with my system?

Well, probably something is wrong, because of the error on
"Info-mode-map".  The mode map really has nothing to do with this
function, so I don't know why the error should occur.

Regarding Info-lookup, it could be something that's not supported on
your system.  It's a GNU Libc feature.