Re: Jump to man page buffer

[Hadron Quark]

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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