Using the Stand-alone Info Reader

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What is Info?

This text documents the use of the GNU Info program, version 2.10.

Info is a program which is used to view info files on an ASCII terminal. info files are the result of processing texinfo files with the program makeinfo or with the Emacs command M-x texinfo-format-buffer. Finally, texinfo is a documentation language which allows a printed manual and online documentation (an info file) to be produced from a single source file.

• Options: Options you can pass on the command line.
• Cursor Commands: Commands which move the cursor within a node.
• Scrolling Commands: Commands for moving the node around in a window.
• Node Commands: Commands for selecting a new node.
• Searching Commands: Commands for searching an info file.
• Xref Commands: Commands for selecting cross references.
• Window Commands: Commands which manipulate multiple windows.
• Printing Nodes: How to print out the contents of a node.
• Miscellaneous Commands: A few commands that defy categories.
• Variables: How to change the default behaviour of Info.