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Re: Jump to man page buffer
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Hadron Quark |
Subject: |
Re: Jump to man page buffer |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:07:49 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
robert.thorpe@antenova.com writes:
> Hadron Quark wrote:
>> I have the following code mapped to f1.
>>
>> "manual-entry (current-word)"
>>
>> How to make emacs also jump to the buffer showing the resulting
>> man-page?
>>
>> thanks for any help.
>
> As a side-note, using man pages as references is trouble in systems
> that use GNU components heavily.
>
> The best docs of most of the general utilities are the info pages, the
> best docs to glibc are generally the info pages. The best/only docs to
> the kernel stuff and system utilities are the man pages.
>
Didnt know that.
I tried "info(current-word)" but it doesnt work.
How would I bring up the info for C functions then? Ideally use the info
page if it exists or else revert to the man page.
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Re: Jump to man page buffer, robert . thorpe, 2006/09/11
- Re: Jump to man page buffer,
Hadron Quark <=
- Re: Jump to man page buffer, David Hansen, 2006/09/12
- Re: Jump to man page buffer, robert . thorpe, 2006/09/12
- Re: Jump to man page buffer, David Hansen, 2006/09/12
- RE: Jump to man page buffer, Drew Adams, 2006/09/12
- Re: Jump to man page buffer, David Hansen, 2006/09/12
- RE: Jump to man page buffer, Drew Adams, 2006/09/12
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- Re: Jump to man page buffer, robert . thorpe, 2006/09/13