Re: Jump to man page buffer

[David Hansen]

On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 01:07:49 +0200 Hadron Quark wrote:

> 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.

Install the GNU libc info manual and use it like you use the
other info manuals.

Anyway i disagree with Robert.  I would think that on every
POSIX box it's more likely that the manual pages are available
than the libc info manual.

And for a quick lookup the manual pages are usually better.
In contrast the libc manual is a bit more descriptive and
comes with more examples.  Both have it's use.

David