Re: call function in other window ?

[Joost Kremers]

On Sun, May 21 2017, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> Kidding aside, for me, it is more important right now to work on 
> information discovery than on writing a few lines of code that I 
> may or may not use in the future. Emacs is so huge that there is 
> always the possibility to just not find what is right under my 
> nose because the information is hard to discover *or* because I 
> would not think of looking for it in the right place.

It may help to learn a bit about Info-mode, if you haven't 
already. The Emacs and Elisp manuals have an index, which you can 
access by typing `i'. If you use a package such as ivy or helm, 
you'll see a list of all the index terms (well, only the first 
few, of course) and typing a word will narrow down that list. The 
nice thing about ivy and helm is that what you type doesn't need 
to match the beginning of an index item.

Also, Info-mode has a regex search function, which you can access 
with `s'. Together, `i' and `s' usually help me to find the right 
place in the Info manual without having to go to Google. (Though 
admittedly, Google also helps, sometimes... ;-) )


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Joost Kremers
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