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Re: default info browser



Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net>:
> 
>  So after 4 years of stubbornly refusing to accept info pages and
>  sticking to plain old 'man' I've decided that it's time to embrace info
>  and give it a shot for a while. However, I don't much care for the
>  text-mode info browser that's used by default. What I'd like to do is
>  force emacs to be my info browser, so that 'info foo', for example, will
>  start up emacs, load up info, and open the 'foo' info page. Any ideas?

You mean like "Help --> Manuals --> Browse Manuals with info"?  As
any normal emacs user knows, emacs is always already running, so you
don't need the "start up emacs" bit.  Just click on Help.

pinfo is a nice alternative to info, btw.


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