From: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: How to link to zsh manual section?
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 21:13:45 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150207211345.GA8278@chaz.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150207120056.ZM10752__13292.4999263652$1423339408$gmane$org@torch.brasslantern.com>
2015-02-07 12:00:56 -0800, Bart Schaefer:
> On Feb 6, 11:23pm, zzapper wrote:
> }
> } A few tips on negotiating the zsh manuals please
>
> In addition to what Mikael said about the PDF, using the "info" reader
> (or emacs itself if that's your editor of choice) to browse the texinfo
> documentation is probably the best interactive method for finding a
> specific section, command, or topic. It's the source for the PDF so
> has all the same indices, and has one-keystroke commands for jumping
> to the top of the current section or back to the last place you were
> reading, etc.
>
> If you have a build tree and have installed yodl, you can read the doc
> for your most recent rebuild with:
>
> make info
> info -f Doc/zsh.info
>
> Otherwise "info zsh" should pull up the doc for the installed zsh package.
And for age:
info --index-search=age zsh
(or in info zsh, press i to get the index (with completion)).
IMO, info is several orders of magnitude better for browsing the
zsh manual than bash.
On Debian and derivatives, install the zsh-doc package to get
it.
--
Stephane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-07 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-06 23:23 zzapper
2015-02-07 11:52 ` zzapper
2015-02-07 12:54 ` Mikael Magnusson
2015-02-07 17:17 ` Ray Andrews
2015-02-07 20:00 ` Bart Schaefer
[not found] ` <150207120056.ZM10752__13292.4999263652$1423339408$gmane$org@torch.brasslantern.com>
2015-02-07 21:13 ` Stephane Chazelas [this message]
2015-02-08 10:00 ` zzapper
2015-02-08 18:46 ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-02-09 13:33 ` zzapper
2015-02-09 13:52 ` René Neumann
2015-02-11 12:26 ` İsmail Dönmez
2015-02-11 12:39 ` Peter Stephenson
2015-02-11 12:47 ` René Neumann
2015-02-11 12:50 ` İsmail Dönmez
2015-02-11 17:02 ` Daniel Shahaf
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