Re: help of some commands not found

[tomas]

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On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 04:34:48PM +0100, Michele Bert wrote:
> 2017-01-09 16:19 GMT+01:00  <tomas@tuxteam.de>:
> > What are you exactly trying to do?
> >
> Nothing important, I was just reading documentation of radomly choosen
> commands. But the same happens on a number of commands.
> 
> > Trying to guess, I assumed that you are searching for a function's
> > description. Trying "C-h f" (same as menu "Help" -> "Describe" ->
> > "Describe Function...") gives for me:
> >
> > What happens for you if you try those steps?
> 
> Really I am searching for _command_ help: "C-h F replace-string" gives:
> Next: Regexp Replace,  Prev: Replace,  Up: Replace
> (emacs)Top > Search > Replace > Unconditional Replace

OK. As others have noted, docs for later Emacsen are more complete.
Updating recommended. In the meantime you might want to try C-h f
(small "f"), which leads you to the function's docstring. Pretty
terse, but most probably existent.

regards
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