RE: how do I visit a file in info mode?

[Drew Adams]

> It used to be the case that I only had to put a non-zero prefix
> on the "info" command.  e.g.  Esc-2 Ctl-h i
> and I was queried as to which .info file to visit.
> I cannot figure out how to do that any more.
> Google doesn't get me there.
> I do not want to install the thing before I've viewed it.
> What can I do?  Thank you.  Regards, Bruce

You don't mention your Emacs version.

In Emacs prior to version 22, any prefix arg gave the behavior you're looking
for. Starting with Emacs 22, you need to use a non-numeric prefix arg to get
that behavior.

So try `C-u C-h i' instead of `M-2 C-h i'.