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Re: how to open an uninstalled info file from within emacs
From: |
Klaus Berndl |
Subject: |
Re: how to open an uninstalled info file from within emacs |
Date: |
24 Sep 2002 15:23:55 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> in my quest to now learn elisp, i wanted to read "programming in
> emacs lisp (2nd ed.)", using the info form of that doc. i've already
> figured out that, when i'm in regular emacs, i can open up an info
> document with "C-h i" and, conveniently, if there are elisp expressions,
> i can execute them with "C-x C-e".
>
> however, the info form of the document i want to read, while it is
> downloadable from www.fsf.org, is not part of the installed info
> library on my latest version of red hat.
>
> so, from within emacs, how can i open in info mode a specific
> info file that i've downloaded from the net? (short of installing
> it, that is; i want to be able to do this to arbitrary info files
> that i might download from arbitrary locations.)
>
> am i making any sense here?
If i understand you right you do not want install these info-files in any path
where Emacs searches autom., right?!
If yes, then just press "C-u C-h i" instead of just "C-h i" and you will be
asked for the filename of an info-file to open.
Klaus
>
> rday
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