Re: finding stuff

[Tomas Nordin]

Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> is there a way to search "everything" which comes with Emacs?
>
> Example: I do not remember Local Variables section syntax and have to
> look it up.  I try various things, fail and end up using web browser.
> That is far from ideal.
>
> Today I invested a bit more time and found C-h d command so C-h d "local
> variables" and then C-s "local variables:" finds something: one hit

Thanks, that seems useful. Did you try 'C-u C-h d'? Or set the variable
apropos-do-all to non-nil? That should yeild a more extensive search.

> only. Now I discovered add-file-local-variable function. But still not
> the syntax of the Local Variables section.
>
> Searching info is still a mystery to me.  Is there a way to search
> across all info files?
>
> Is there a way to search everything which comes with emacs,
> e.g. function names, docstrings, info, NEWS etc?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tomas