Re: Re: Ringing the alarm bell in orgmode

["William Henney" <whenney@gmail.com>]

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,

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  Dr William Henney, Centro de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia