From: "William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com>
To: Bastien <bzg@altern.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Ringing the alarm bell in orgmode
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 09:16:21 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41c818190711060716p795fb91v9a3b899624a8a21d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874pfz5qlp.fsf@bzg.ath.cx>
On 11/6/07, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> Richard G Riley <rileyrgdev@googlemail.com> writes:
> > Is it just me or are emacs info pages really a bit of a dog to search
> > through?
>
> It's not just you.
>
> Many people don't like to search through the Info pages and whether this
> interface is the best one for Emacs documentation is always a hot topic
> on the emacs-devel mailing list.
>
> But `i' (M-x Info-index) will really make your life easier.
>
> Personnally I do like Info pages and Info-mode very much. In addition
> to Info-index, I'm mostly using these:
>
> `l' Info-history-back
> `L' Info-history
> `]' Info-forward-node
>
> Once you get used to these few commands, it's really quick to find and
> fetch info relevant information.
>
I use "l" a lot, but I didn't know about "L" - thanks!
The commands I use most are "spacebar", which just chugs through an
entire manual, and "s", which does a regexp search.
I do like info pages when I can actually get the right ones to load.
The big problem I have with info is in setting it up so that it finds
the right files. For instance, I have totally failed to work out how I
can tell it where my org info files are, with the result that it
always shows me the old version that comes with my emacs (currently
4.67). I have tried setting Info-default-directory-list and
Info-directory-list, but all to no avail. Has anyone else had this
problem?
Cheers
Will
> HTH,
--
Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-06 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-06 8:23 Ringing the alarm bell in orgmode Uwe Jochum
2007-11-06 8:48 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2007-11-06 14:37 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 9:43 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 10:23 ` Uwe Jochum
2007-11-06 14:22 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 13:55 ` Richard G Riley
2007-11-06 15:41 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 15:16 ` William Henney [this message]
2007-11-06 15:34 ` Chris Leyon
2007-11-06 15:35 ` Richard G Riley
2007-11-06 16:43 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2007-11-06 16:47 ` Bastien
2007-11-06 16:58 ` William Henney
[not found] ` <uzlxrfphs.fsf@uni-konstanz.de>
2007-11-06 15:31 ` Bastien
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