Mail Archives: djgpp/2003/02/09/11:15:06
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, CBFalconer wrote:
>
> > > But I urge you to invest a little more time in learning Info,
> > > since it will let you find things much more efficiently. For
> > > starters, read the section about Info in the README.1ST file.
> > > HTML format doesn't give you the index search or the
> > > TAB-completion on available topics, two of the more important
> > > features of Info.
> >
> > It certainly grows on you.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand what did you mean by that.
Idiomatic, meaning you get to appreciate it more as time goes by.
>
> > The principle nuisance (in info) is
> > the absence of any means of printing out a node, or a collection
> > of nodes.
>
> That's not true: type "Alt-x print-node", hit [Enter], and there you go.
>
> GUI Info readers have their own means to print a node.
>
> You can also print a series of nodes by redirecting info.exe's output to
> the printer; see "info --help" for more.
Learn something almost every day :-) Should that work to W9x
printers - I can't print anything directly from a DOS box AFAICT.
p.s.: Just tried it. No joy. info info doesn't tell me anything
about those ALT-x commands either. Maybe that is for emacs only?
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