X-Git-Url: https://code.delx.au/gnu-emacs/blobdiff_plain/308374ca26a38728cdf0a65ae6ac7cd4434f0799..719d83adfe41463938cbd125323fee575f9d6c05:/man/info.texi diff --git a/man/info.texi b/man/info.texi index cb3c4eed23..d88a7bf4cc 100644 --- a/man/info.texi +++ b/man/info.texi @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ @settitle Info 1.0 @comment %**end of header +@dircategory Emacs @direntry * Info: (info). Documentation browsing system. @end direntry @@ -152,7 +153,6 @@ the screen. * Help-M:: Menus * Help-Adv:: Some advanced Info commands * Help-Q:: Quitting Info -* Using Stand-alone Info:: How to use the stand-alone Info reader. @end menu @node Help-Small-Screen, Help, , Getting Started @@ -522,7 +522,8 @@ level but go backwards'' You can go back to the node @samp{Help-M} by typing the command @kbd{u} for ``Up''. That puts you at the @emph{front} of the node---to get back to where you were reading you have to type -some @key{SPC}s. +some @key{SPC}s. (Some Info readers, such as the one built into Emacs, +put you at the same place where you were reading in @samp{Help-M}.) @format >> Now type @kbd{u} to move back up to @samp{Help-M}. @@ -672,7 +673,7 @@ called @samp{Top} in this file (its directory node). Unlike @kbd{m}, @kbd{g} does not allow the use of abbreviations. -To go to a node in another file, you can include the filename in the +To go to a node in another file, you can include the file name in the node name by putting it at the front, in parentheses. Thus, @kbd{g(dir)Top@key{RET}} would go to the Info Directory node, which is node @samp{Top} in the file @file{dir}. @@ -687,7 +688,7 @@ switches to the next node if and when that is necessary. You type To search for the same string again, just @kbd{s} followed by @key{RET} will do. The file's nodes are scanned in the order they are in in the file, which has no necessary relationship to the order that they may be -in in the tree structure of menus and @samp{next} pointers. But +in the tree structure of menus and @samp{next} pointers. But normally the two orders are not very different. In any case, you can always do a @kbd{b} to find out what node you have reached, if the header is not visible (this can happen, because @kbd{s} puts your cursor @@ -779,7 +780,7 @@ node @kbd{*} is to make it possible to make old-fashioned, unstructured files into nodes of the tree. The @samp{Node:} name, in which a node states its own name, must not -contain a filename, since Info when searching for a node does not +contain a file name, since Info when searching for a node does not expect one to be there. The @samp{Next}, @samp{Previous} and @samp{Up} names may contain them. In this node, since the @samp{Up} node is in the same file, it was not necessary to use one. @@ -961,17 +962,10 @@ function @code{Info-directory} is called. file; @code{texinfo-format-region} and @code{texinfo-format-buffer} are GNU Emacs functions that do the same. -@xref{Create an Info File, , Creating an Info File, texinfo, the Texinfo +@xref{Creating an Info File, , Creating an Info File, texinfo, the Texinfo Manual}, to learn how to create an Info file from a Texinfo file. @xref{Top,, Overview of Texinfo, texinfo, Texinfo: The GNU Documentation Format}, to learn how to write a Texinfo file. -@nwnode Using Stand-alone Info, Options, , Top -@chapter Using the Stand-alone Info Reader -@lowersections -@c Make the paragraph indentation match the rest of this file. -@paragraphindent 2 -@include info-stnd.texi -@raisesections @bye