| .TH info 1 "7th December 1990" |
| .SH NAME |
| info \- GNU's hypertext system |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .B info |
| [ |
| .B \-\-option-name option-value |
| ] |
| .B \menu-item... |
| .SH COPYRIGHT |
| .if n Copyright (C) 1989, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| .if t Copyright \(co 1989, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .LP |
| The GNU project has a hypertext system called |
| .I Info |
| which allows the same source file to be either printed as a |
| paper manual, or viewed using |
| .B info. |
| It is possible to use the |
| .B info |
| program from inside Emacs, or to use the stand-alone version described here. |
| This manual page gives a brief summary of its capabilities. |
| |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .B \-\-directory directory-path |
| Add |
| .B directory-path |
| to the list of directory paths searched when |
| .B info |
| needs to find a file. You may issue |
| .B \-\-directory |
| multiple times. |
| Alternatively, you may specify a value for the environment variable |
| .B INFOPATH; |
| if |
| .B \-\-directory |
| is not given, the value of |
| .B INFOPATH |
| is used. The value of |
| .B INFOPATH |
| is a colon separated list of directory names. If you do not supply either |
| .B INFOPATH |
| or |
| .B \-\-directory-path, |
| .B info |
| uses a default path. |
| .TP |
| .B \-f filename |
| Specify a particular |
| .B info |
| file to visit. By default, |
| .B info |
| visits |
| the file |
| .B dir; |
| if you use this option, |
| .B info |
| will start with |
| .B (FILENAME)Top |
| as the first file and node. |
| .TP |
| .B \-n nodename |
| Specify a particular node to visit in the initial file that |
| .B info |
| loads. This is especially useful in conjunction with |
| .B \-\-file. |
| You may specify |
| .B \-\-node |
| multiple times. |
| .TP |
| .B -o file |
| Direct output to |
| .B file |
| instead of starting an interactive |
| .B info |
| session. |
| .TP |
| .B \-h |
| Produce a relatively brief description of the available |
| .B info |
| options. |
| .TP |
| .B \-\-version |
| Print the version information of |
| .B info |
| and exit. |
| .TP |
| .B menu-item |
| .B info |
| treats its remaining arguments as the names of menu items. |
| The first argument is a menu item in the initial node visited, |
| while the second argument is a menu item in the first argument's |
| node. You can easily move to the node of your choice by |
| specifying the menu names which describe the path to that node. |
| For example, |
| |
| .B info emacs buffers |
| |
| first selects the menu item |
| .B emacs |
| in the node |
| .B (dir)Top, |
| and then selects the menu item |
| .B buffers |
| in the node |
| .B (emacs)Top. |
| .SH COMMANDS |
| When in |
| .B info |
| the following commands are available: |
| .TP |
| .B h |
| Invoke the Info tutorial. |
| .TP |
| .B ? |
| Get a short summary of |
| .B info |
| commands. |
| .TP |
| .B h |
| Select the |
| .B info |
| node from the main directory; this is much more complete than just |
| using |
| .B ?. |
| .TP |
| .B Ctrl-g |
| Abort whatever you are doing. |
| .TP |
| .B Ctrl-l |
| Redraw the screen. |
| .PP |
| Selecting other nodes: |
| .TP |
| .B n |
| Move to the "next" node of this node. |
| .TP |
| .B p |
| Move to the "previous" node of this node. |
| .TP |
| .B u |
| Move to this node's "up" node. |
| .TP |
| .B m |
| Pick a menu item specified by name. Picking a menu item causes another |
| node to be selected. You do not need to type a complete nodename; if |
| you type a few letters and then a space or tab |
| .B info |
| will try to fill in the rest of the nodename. If you ask for further |
| completion without typing any more characters you'll be given a list |
| of possibilities; you can also get the list with |
| .B ?. |
| If you type a few characters and then hit return |
| .B info |
| will try to do a completion, and if it is ambigous use the first possibility. |
| .TP |
| .B f |
| Follow a cross reference. You are asked for the name of the reference, |
| using command completion as for |
| .B m. |
| .TP |
| .B l |
| Move to the last node you were at. |
| .PP |
| Moving within a node: |
| .TP |
| .B Space |
| Scroll forward a page. |
| .TP |
| .B DEL |
| Scroll backward a page. |
| .TP |
| .B b |
| Go to the beginning of this node. |
| .PP |
| Advanced commands: |
| .TP |
| .B q |
| Quit |
| .B info. |
| .TP |
| .B 1 |
| Pick first item in node's menu. |
| .TP |
| .B 2 \-\- 5 |
| Pick second ... fifth item in node's menu. |
| .TP |
| .B g |
| Move to node specified by name. You may include a filename as well, |
| as |
| .B (FILENAME)NODENAME. |
| .TP |
| .B s |
| Search through this |
| .B info |
| file for a specified string, and select the node in which |
| the next occurrence is found. |
| .TP |
| .B M-x print-node |
| Pipe the contents of the current node through the command in the |
| environment variable |
| .B INFO_PRINT_COMMAND. |
| If the variable does not exist, the node is simply piped to |
| .B lpr. |
| .SH ENVIRONMENT |
| .TP |
| .B INFOPATH |
| A colon-separated list of directories to search for |
| .B info |
| files. Used if |
| .B \-\-directory |
| is not given. |
| .TP |
| .B INFO_PRINT_COMMAND |
| The command used for printing. |
| .SH SEE ALSO |
| .BR emacs (1) |
| .SH AUTHOR |
| .RS |
| Brian Fox, Free Software Foundation |
| .br |
| bfox@ai.mit.edu |
| .SH MANUAL AUTHOR |
| .RS |
| Robert Lupton; updated by Robert J. Chassell. |
| .br |
| rhl@astro.princeton.edu; bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu |
