On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 14:42 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:39 -0500, Sebastian Luque wrote: > > Alex Malinovich <demonbane@the-love-shack.net> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > 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. > > > > If that's the case, why do you want to start Emacs just to read 'info'? > > What's wrong with your shell's 'info'? > > I don't like the default info browser. The navigation bar on top scrolls > off the screen, and I'm limited to my console font and 24 rows of text. > (And no text highlighting, etc.) I have my emacs set up with a very good > font and since it's in X I can fit a good 40-80 lines on a screen at a > time depending on window size. (I know I can resize my terminal window > beyond 24 lines of course, but I prefer to keep my terminal windows at > 24x80 since I'm so used to standard text consoles.) (NOTE: Off-list reply from Sebastian to my accidental off-list post, being forwarded on his behalf for the sake of the archives.) So why don't you use Emacs' shell mode? With M-x shell (or eshell or term, whichever you prefer) you have your command line, and with C-h i you have your info. But if you insist in starting Emacs from another console, perhaps writing your own function in your shell startup file (e.g. ~/.bashrc) that uses something like 'emacs -nw -f info' taking an argument for the lisp 'info' function (read 'man emacs' and 'C-h f info' inside Emacs) is the way to go.
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