This file describes how to use Info, the on-line, menu-driven GNU
documentation system.
-Copyright @copyright{} 1989, 1992, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
-2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1989, 1992, 1996--2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@quotation
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
-Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU
-Manual,'' and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the
-license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
-License'' in the Emacs manual.
+Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover texts being ``A GNU Manual,''
+and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a) below. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.
(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: ``You have the freedom to copy and
-modify this GNU manual. Buying copies from the FSF supports it in
-developing GNU and promoting software freedom.''
-
-This document is part of a collection distributed under the GNU Free
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-license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license.
+modify this GNU manual.''
@end quotation
@end copying
@dircategory Texinfo documentation system
@direntry
-* Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.
+* Info: (info). How to use the documentation browsing system.
@end direntry
@titlepage
@end ifinfo
@end ifnottex
+@insertcopying
+
@menu
* Getting Started:: Getting started using an Info reader.
* Advanced:: Advanced Info commands.
* Expert Info:: Info commands for experts.
+* GNU Free Documentation License:: The license for this documentation.
* Index:: An index of topics, commands, and variables.
@end menu
@format
>> If you are in Emacs and have a mouse, and if you already practiced
- typing @kbd{n} to get to the next node, click now with the left
+ typing @kbd{n} to get to the next node, click now with the left
mouse button on the @samp{Next} link to do the same ``the mouse way''.
@end format
we call ``Backspace or DEL'' in this manual is labeled differently on
different keyboards. Look for a key which is a little ways above the
@key{ENTER} or @key{RET} key and which you normally use outside Emacs
-to erase the character before the cursor, i.e.@: the character you
+to erase the character before the cursor, i.e., the character you
typed last. It might be labeled @samp{Backspace} or @samp{<-} or
@samp{DEL}, or sometimes @samp{Delete}.} and @kbd{b} commands exist to
allow you to ``move around'' in a node that does not all fit on the
puts your cursor at the occurrence of the string, not at the beginning
of the node).
-@kindex M-s @r{(Info mode)}
- In Emacs, @kbd{Meta-s} is equivalent to @kbd{s}. That is for
-compatibility with other GNU packages that use @kbd{M-s} for a similar
-kind of search command. Both @kbd{s} and @kbd{M-s} run in Emacs the
-command @code{Info-search}.
-
@kindex C-s @r{(Info mode)}
@kindex C-r @r{(Info mode)}
@findex isearch
want to read the description of what the @kbd{C-l} key does, type
@kbd{iC-l@key{RET}} literally.
+@findex Info-virtual-index
+@kindex I @r{(Info mode)}
+Emacs provides the command @code{Info-virtual-index}, bound to the
+@kbd{I} key. This behaves like @kbd{i}, but constructs a virtual
+info node displaying the results of an index search, making it easier
+to select the one you want.
+
@findex info-apropos
@findex index-apropos
If you aren't sure which manual documents the topic you are looking
this is so you need not count how many entries are there.
If your display supports multiple fonts, colors or underlining, and
-you are using Emacs' Info mode to read Info files, the third, sixth
+you are using Emacs's Info mode to read Info files, the third, sixth
and ninth menu items have a @samp{*} that stands out, either in color
or in some other attribute, such as underline; this makes it easy to
see at a glance which number to use for an item.
switches to the Info buffer with that number. Thus, @kbd{C-u 2 C-h i}
switches to the buffer @samp{*info*<2>}, creating it if necessary.
+@findex info-display-manual
+ If you have created many Info buffers in Emacs, you might find it
+difficult to remember which buffer is showing which manual. You can
+use the command @kbd{M-x info-display-manual} to show an Info manual
+by name, reusing an existing buffer if there is one.
+
@node Emacs Info Variables, , Create Info buffer, Advanced
@comment node-name, next, previous, up
@section Emacs Info-mode Variables
@node Expert Info
@chapter Info for Experts
+@cindex Texinfo
This chapter explains how to write an Info file by hand. However,
in most cases, writing a Texinfo file is better, since you can use it
To check an Info file, do @kbd{M-x Info-validate} while looking at any
node of the file with Emacs Info mode.
+@node GNU Free Documentation License
+@appendix GNU Free Documentation License
+@include doclicense.texi
+
@node Index
@unnumbered Index
@printindex cp
@bye
-
-@ignore
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