This file describes how to use Info, the on-line, menu-driven GNU
documentation system.
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-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.
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@end copying
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@end ifnottex
-@insertcopying
+@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
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