Sebastian Luque <spluque@gmail.com> wrote: [...] > function myinfo { emacs -q -nw --eval "(info \"$1\")"; } Oops, looking at Jim's suggestion, I realized that the positional argument above should be in braces, so: function myinfo { emacs -q -nw --eval "(info \"${1}\")"; } is more precise. -- Sebastian P. Luque