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Re: info reference syntax
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Dan Davison |
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Re: info reference syntax |
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Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:12:48 +0000 |
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On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 08:27:40PM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> > What does this syntax mean?
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> > ,----
> > | See Info node `(viper)Top'.
> > `----
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> > Is there some way of using it to immediately access the info node
> > referred to?
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> M-: (info "(viper) Top")
Great, thanks. That is useful to know.
"(viper) Top" still seems like a pretty weird syntax. Just out of
curiosity, is there some explanation? I see that the shell version is
'info filename nodename'. And according to wikipedia info was written
for GNU/linux. So it's a post-linux emacs design? Wouldn't
(info filename &optional nodename)
have been more natural?
Dan
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