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Re: Opening an info page by command name, take 2


From: Sebastian Tennant
Subject: Re: Opening an info page by command name, take 2
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:56:43 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

Quoth Stephen Berman <Stephen.Berman@gmx.net>:
> Here's something that may help you.
>
> (defun srb-info ()
>   "Enter Info at the Info file the user chooses, tabbing for completion.
> If you type parentheses around the Info file name and then type a
> node name, e.g. `(emacs)Buffers', then Info enters the file at
> that node (completion for nodes below the file level is not
> provided)."
>   (interactive)
>   (require 'info)
>   (let (files idx info-files info-file)
>     (dolist (d Info-default-directory-list files)
>       (when (file-readable-p d)
>       (setq files (cons (directory-files d) files))))
>     (setq files (append (car files) (cadr files)))
>     (dolist (f files)
>       (setq idx (string-match "\\." f))
>       (setq info-files (cons (substring f 0 idx) info-files)))
>     (dolist (f info-files)
>       (when (string-match "-[1-9][0-9]?$" f)
>       (setq info-files (delete f info-files))))
>     (setq info-file (completing-read "Info file name: " info-files))
>     (unless (string-match "^\([^ ]+\)" info-file)
>       (setq info-file (concat "(" info-file ")")))
>     (Info-goto-node info-file)))

A handy function that provides completion on a sensible subset of the
files actually found in the info directory, but the OP was interested in
opening info (in emacs) directly from the command line.

Sebastian







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