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Re: default info browser



On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 15:59 +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> 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.

Sadly, I have not yet embraced emacs as the One True OS. I only really
use it for coding, editing some of the more cumbersome config files
(httpd.conf comes to mind), and, of course, mpuz. (Love that game.)

Even if I already had it running however, clicking is much too slow for
me. M-x info, m, <pagename> works, but it's too many steps. Not to
mention that I have to switch to the window first. What I would LIKE to
be able to do is "info pagename" from the command line and have it open
it up in emacs' info browser.

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