X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/8546720e6f25eb988e8215de6678798053031440..38276e01dbc7519f1c79423c909c2703f8415ca8:/doc/misc/info.texi diff --git a/doc/misc/info.texi b/doc/misc/info.texi index 68390a2f0c..d17a65571f 100644 --- a/doc/misc/info.texi +++ b/doc/misc/info.texi @@ -14,26 +14,18 @@ This file describes how to use Info, the on-line, menu-driven GNU documentation system. -Copyright @copyright{} 1989, 1992, 1996-2011 -Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright @copyright{} 1989, 1992, 1996--2013 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 1.3 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 -Documentation License. If you want to distribute this document -separately from the collection, you can do so by adding a copy of the -license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license. +modify this GNU manual.'' @end quotation @end copying @@ -79,12 +71,13 @@ Started' chapter. @end ifinfo @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 @@ -265,7 +258,7 @@ 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 +318,7 @@ 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 @@ -1086,7 +1079,8 @@ partial node name. 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 the node @samp{Top} in the Info file @file{dir}. Likewise, -@kbd{g(emacs)Top@key{RET}} goes to the top node of the Emacs manual. +@kbd{g(emacs)Top@key{RET}} (or just @kbd{g(emacs)@key{RET}}) goes to the +top node of the Emacs manual. The node name @samp{*} specifies the whole file. So you can look at all of the current file by typing @kbd{g*@key{RET}} or all of any @@ -1108,7 +1102,7 @@ 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. @@ -1142,6 +1136,12 @@ 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 @@ -1230,6 +1230,7 @@ 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 @@ -1498,6 +1499,10 @@ usually few. 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