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Re: info-find-source
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
Re: info-find-source |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:33:32 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.9.2 (2017-12-15) |
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Drew Adams wrote:
> > Emanuel Berg wrote:
> >> Another example where info is slower is this
> >> very common situation.
> >> 1. You look something up with info and use it.
> >> 2. You look something else up and use that.
> >> 3, or I mean 1b - because the first thing
> >> didn't quite work! Now, with info, you have to
> >> navigate back to that node to see what it
> >> really said. And maybe between steps 1 and 2,
> >> you looked up something else still, which you
> >> didn't use, which might even belong to some
> >> different program, etc. etc.!
There are some documentation pages that I refer to often. This is
typically when I am trying to learn a new feature. I haven't
committed the details into long term memory yet. I need to get back
to those pages often. If I do that twice in a row then I set an emacs
bookmark on the info page I am wanting to get back to often. Let's
say that is (intentionally recursive) emacs book marks.
Afer navigating to the page I want to refer to again:
C-x r m (bookmark-set)
q (Info-exit)
So then I am going along and doing whatever. Then I want to refer to
that documentation again. I've bookmarked it. I bring up the
bookmark menu.
C-x r l (bookmark-bmenu-list)
% Bookmark File
(emacs) Bookmarks /usr/share/info/emacs-25/emacs
I use C-n C-p (or n and p), or C-s to search down to it, to move the
selection to the bookmark I want. Then Enter to select it. With the
selection on the Bookmarks line above Enter takes me immediately back
to that node and the documentation I am wanting.
> > `M-n' (`clone-buffer') is your friend.
>
> Wow, yet another gift from Info! Thanks again!
Cool! That is also a new feature I did not know about either. I can
think of several cases where this is going to be very useful to me.
Thank you for this very interesting hint!
> Sometimes when using Emacs I feel like a child in a toy store. With the
> parents' credit card. ;-P
Well said! Me too! :-)
Bob
- Re: info-find-source, (continued)
- Re: info-find-source, Kaushal Modi, 2018/01/13
- Re: info-find-source, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/01/13
- RE: info-find-source, Drew Adams, 2018/01/13
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- Re: info-find-source, Emanuel Berg, 2018/01/14
- Re: info-find-source, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/01/15
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- Re: info-find-source, Emanuel Berg, 2018/01/15
- RE: info-find-source, Drew Adams, 2018/01/13
- Re: info-find-source, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/01/13
- Re: info-find-source,
Bob Proulx <=
- RE: info-find-source, Drew Adams, 2018/01/13
- Re: info-find-source, Bob Proulx, 2018/01/13
- Re: info-find-source, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/01/14
- Re: info-find-source, tomas, 2018/01/14
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- Re: info-find-source, Emanuel Berg, 2018/01/14
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- Re: info-find-source, Emanuel Berg, 2018/01/14
- Re: info-find-source, Emanuel Berg, 2018/01/14
- Re: info-find-source, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/01/15
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- Re: info-find-source, Emanuel Berg, 2018/01/15
- Re: info-find-source, Marcin Borkowski, 2018/01/15