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Re: how do I visit a file in info mode?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: how do I visit a file in info mode? |
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Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:17:59 +0200 |
> From: Bruce Korb <bruce.korb@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:21:55 -0800
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> Here, the new code just quietly ignores the numeric prefix
??? How do you mean ``ignore''? If I type "C-u 100 C-h i", I get a
buffer "*info*<100>" with the Info main directory.
> "non-numeric prefix" is a new feature that must have cropped up in the
> last 20 years. :-D
It's been in Emacs since day one, actually. Maybe you are just
unfamiliar with the term, which means "there is an argument, but it is
not a number".
> > In this case, from the doc string (`C-h k C-h i'):
> >
> > "In interactive use, a non-numeric prefix argument directs
> > this command to read a file name from the minibuffer.
> > A numeric prefix argument selects an Info buffer with the
> > prefix number appended to the Info buffer name."
>
> I know the stuff is always documented somewhere. The problem is
> finding it.
The doc string of the command is not ``somewhere''. It's generally
the first place to look.
Re: how do I visit a file in info mode?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2010/03/01