Re: Accessing "Introduction to Emacs Lisp Manual" from Info within Emacs.

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 07 Jul 2023 15:41:01 +0000 uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> wrote:

> ------- Original Message -------
> On Saturday, July 8th, 2023 at 3:12 AM, Stephen Berman
> <stephen.berman@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>
>> On Fri, 07 Jul 2023 17:49:54 +0300 Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
>>
>> > > Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 14:34:35 +0000
>> > > From: uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me
>> > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> > >
>> > > > > Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:57:32 +0000
>> > > > > From: uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me
>> > > > >
>> > > > > How can I access "Introduction to Emacs Lisp Manual" from Info
>> > > > > within Emacs.
>> > > >
>> > > > It's on the Help menu, under "More Manuals".
>> > > >
>> > > > Alternatively, "C-h i" shows a large menu, where you should be able to
>> > > > find this manual as one of the possibilities.
>> > >
>> > > I can easily get the "Emacs Manual", the "Emacs Lisp Manual". Both with
>> > > "C-h i m" . So way skip "Emacs Lisp Intro".
>> > >
>> > > I do not have to search for the two aforementioned manuals, so let's not
>> > > have users search for "Emacs Lisp Intro" either.
>> > >
>> > > This is my suggestion
>> > >
>> > > C-h i m elintr <Ret>
>> >
>> > We have a better one: "C-h i m Emacs Lisp Intro RET"
>>
>>
>> This also works:
>>
>> g, then at the prompt: (eintr) RET
>
> Managed to get it to work.  It would be quicker to forego the need
> for parentheses when using "g".

Without the parentheses `g' only recognizes nodes in the current Info
file.  The parentheses are needed to jump to a different Info file, and
you can add a node name after the parentheses; omitting the node name
sends you to the top-level node of the file named in the parentheses.

Steve Berman