bug#1722: Meta-Digit not working for info command

[Bruce Korb]

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:
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CF: email from help-gnu-emacs

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Bruce Korb'" <bruce.korb@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
References: <4956B2A5.2050106@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: How can I select a .info file for info mode?
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:50:51 -0800

> It used to be the case that ``ESC-2 CTL-h i'' gave me the opportunity
> to select the .info file to use for info mode.  Not any more.
> Plowing through the docs doesn't give me a good enough hint about
> how to do it either.  Please tell me there is still a way to do this?
> Searching keybindings did not yield anything promising either.
> I guess I could read the elisp for the previous emacs and my current
> one, but that is too far over the top for me.  I don't grok elisp
> very well anyway.

Yes, `ESC-2 C-h i' (or `M-2 C-h i') works in Emacs before the Emacs 22 release.
Dunno if this change was intentional or is a bug - you might check the NEWS file
to see. If it was not intentional, then you might want to report a bug using
`M-x report-emacs-bug'.

<<I didn't look.  IMHO, it is definitely a bug.>>

In any case, you can still use `C-u C-h i' to do the same thing - it prompts you
for the Info file to use.

<<This works, but there are not even any hints to get you there.
  In fact, the doc for CTL-u seems to imply that ``CTL-u 2'' is
  equivalent to ``Meta-2'', with some fuzzy words following that
  seem to mean, "well, not quite exactly, but pretty much and you
  need to see each individual command to really know".  Obviously,
  it's not especially clear to me.>>

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If Emacs crashed, <<nope.>>

In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (x86_64-suse-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2008-09-11 on hammer22
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090
configured using `configure  '--with-gcc' '--with-pop' '--without-hesiod' 
'--with-kerberos' '--with-kerberos5' '--with-leim' '--with-xim' 
'--with-system-malloc' '--prefix=/usr' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' 
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--localstatedir=/var' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' 
'--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--with-x' '--with-sound' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' 
'--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--with-x-toolkit=lucid' 
'--x-includes=/usr/include' '--x-libraries=/usr/lib64:/usr/share/X11' 
'--build=x86_64-suse-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=x86_64-suse-linux-gnu' 'CC=gcc' 
'CFLAGS=-O2 -fmessage-length=0 -Wall -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector -g 
-D_GNU_SOURCE -std=gnu89 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign 
-Wno-unused-variable -Wno-unused-label -Wno-unprototyped-calls 
-DSYSTEM_PURESIZE_EXTRA=55000      -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=10000 ' 'LDFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  server-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<<<not relevant>>>

Recent messages:
<<<also not relevant>>>