Re: info anchor not working in emacs23

[Stefan Monnier]

> wouldn't the above be equivalent to doing in emacs?
> C-x C-f  ./test.info
> M-: (Info-mode)

No, not at all.  Calling Info-mode manually will mostly not work.
Info is fairly special in this way (and it's clearly a misfeature).
You can try M-x Info-on-current-buffer which tries to turn a buffer
containing a .info file into a proper and mostly functional Info buffer,
but it's fairly hackish and has various quirks.
Part of the problem is that Info is basically designed around the idea
of accessing various files, so while at any given point it shows you
part of a single file, it is not really bound to a single file in the
same way as a normal file buffer.


        Stefan