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Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?
From: |
Giorgos Keramidas |
Subject: |
Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs? |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 02:10:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (berkeley-unix) |
On 15 Dec 2006 06:57:13 -0800,
"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> wrote:
>Hadron Quark wrote:
>>"Robert Thorpe" <rthorpe@realworldtech.com> writes:
>>> It's not documented by Emacs, it's documented in the Info docs that
>>> come with GLibc.
>>
>> I installed the glibc info package on my ubuntu system. restarted
>> emacs. Here are some outputs from the info pages for glibc and the man
>> pages for printf:
>>
>> (a) man page using manual-entry(current-word):
>>
>> ,----
>> | PRINTF(3) Linux Programmer's Manual <snip>
>>
>> Surely the man pages are superior in this instance for a programmer?
>
> It depends. [...]
> The man-page is quite thorough in this case, but it is a little
> confusing in one respect, It says "Linux Programmer's Manual". I
> have no idea why it says this, since printf is provided by Glibc.
That's because man pages are organized in sections. The section title
for manpages in section 3 is "Linux Programmer's Manual" on Linux. On
other systems, section 3 may have a slightly different title. Here, for
instance, on a FreeBSD system, the title is:
PRINTF(3) FreeBSD Library Functions Manual PRINTF(3)
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, (continued)
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/15
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Ronald, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/15
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?,
Giorgos Keramidas <=
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/18
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Giorgos Keramidas, 2006/12/20
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/20
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/15
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Robert Thorpe, 2006/12/15
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/16
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/16
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- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Hadron Quark, 2006/12/16
- Re: Why I can't use `info' in emacs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/12/16