X-Git-Url: https://git.hcoop.net/bpt/emacs.git/blobdiff_plain/a8101f663e6cbff953b67b8bef33bc0171818477..6bf430d146b212bb307107131639e2f42b6cfc80:/doc/misc/info.texi diff --git a/doc/misc/info.texi b/doc/misc/info.texi index 97cc17812e..2c1331df33 100644 --- a/doc/misc/info.texi +++ b/doc/misc/info.texi @@ -14,9 +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 @@ -28,8 +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 @@ -80,7 +77,7 @@ Started' chapter. @end ifinfo @end ifnottex -@insertcopying +@insertcopying @menu * Getting Started:: Getting started using an Info reader. @@ -266,7 +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 @@ -326,7 +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 @@ -1109,7 +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. @@ -1143,6 +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 @@ -1231,6 +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 @@ -1508,7 +1512,3 @@ topics discussed in this document. @printindex cp @bye - -@ignore - arch-tag: 965c1638-01d6-4156-9227-b10418b9d8e8 -@end ignore