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diff --git a/doc/misc/info.texi b/doc/misc/info.texi
index 98fffabdd6..2c1331df33 100644
--- a/doc/misc/info.texi
+++ b/doc/misc/info.texi
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
 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, 2009, 2010 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
@@ -27,8 +26,7 @@ license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation
 License'' in the Emacs manual.
 
 (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.''
+modify this GNU manual.''
 
 This document is part of a collection distributed under the GNU Free
 Documentation License.  If you want to distribute this document
@@ -39,7 +37,7 @@ license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license.
 
 @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
@@ -79,7 +77,7 @@ Started' chapter.
 @end ifinfo
 @end ifnottex
 
-@insertcopying 
+@insertcopying
 
 @menu
 * Getting Started::             Getting started using an Info reader.
@@ -265,7 +263,7 @@ links.
 
 @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
 
@@ -325,7 +323,7 @@ the screen.
 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
@@ -1050,6 +1048,13 @@ their names when @kbd{i} prompts you for a topic.  For example, if you
 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
@@ -1101,7 +1106,7 @@ In the stand-alone reader, @kbd{0} goes through the last menu item;
 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.
@@ -1135,6 +1140,12 @@ prefix argument for the @kbd{C-h i} command (@code{info}) which
 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
@@ -1223,6 +1234,7 @@ this:
 
 @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
@@ -1500,7 +1512,3 @@ topics discussed in this document.
 @printindex cp
 
 @bye
-
-@ignore
-   arch-tag: 965c1638-01d6-4156-9227-b10418b9d8e8
-@end ignore