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


From: uzibalqa
Subject: Re: Accessing "Introduction to Emacs Lisp Manual" from Info within Emacs.
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 18:46:55 +0000

------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, July 8th, 2023 at 6:14 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:


> > Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:02:51 +0000
> > From: uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > If I am in Info (dir)Top, why not allow me using "g" without the 
> > parentheses.
> 
> 
> You are not supposed to use 'g' in this situation.
> 
> You have taken the least useful response to your questions and
> disregarded all the rest. The other responses would allow you to find
> this manual much easier, without all the weird quirks that the 'g'
> command requires. Using 'g' for going to another manual is considered
> "advanced usage" of Info, so it uses tricky syntax, and newbies are
> well advised to stay away.

Going to another manual should not be "advanced usage".  Newbies would 
want to be able to go to a different manual.  It would be neat to have 
the ability to use completion for the different manuals available on the\
system and also have it as a help feature.







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