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Expert

 Some Advanced INFO Commands ("G", "S", "1" - "5", and "^R").

 If you know a node's  name, you can go there  by typing "G", the  name,
 and a CR.  Thus,  "GTop<CR>" would go  to the node  called Top in  this
 file (its directory node).  "GExpert<CR>" would come back.

 Unlike M, G does not allow the  use of abbreviations, and does not  let
 you give even the  Space, Caret and Dot  commands while you are  typing
 the argument in.

 To go to a node  in another file, you can  include the filename in  the
 node  name  by  putting  it  at  the  front,  in  parentheses.    Thus,
 "G(DIR)Top<CR>" would go to the INFO Directory node, which is node  Top
 in the file DIR (which is short for <INFO>DIR.INFO).

 The node name "*" specifies the whole file.  So you can look at all  of
 the current  file by  typing "G*<CR>"  or all  of any  other file  with
 "G(<file>)<CR>".

 The "S" command allows  you to search  a whole file  for a string.   It
 will switch to the next node if  and when that is necessary.  You  type
 "S" followed  by the  string to  search for,  terminated by  a CR.   To
 search for the same string  again, just "S" followed  by a CR will  do.
 The file's nodes will be scanned in the order they are in in the  file,
 which has no necessary relationship to the order that they may be in in
 the tree structure of  menus and next's.  But  normally the two  orders
 will not be far  different.  In any  case, you can always  do a "B"  to
 find out what node you have reached, if the header isn't visible  (this
 can happen,  because "S"  puts your  cursor at  the occurrence  of  the
 string, not at the beginning of the node).

 If you grudge  the system each  character of type-in  it requires,  you
 might like to use the commands "1",  "2", "3", "4", and "5".  They  are
 short for the "M" command together with an argument.  "1" goes  through
 the first item in the current node's Menu; "2" goes through the  second
 item, etc.  Note that  numbers larger than 5  are not allowed.  If  the
 item  you  want  is  that  far  down,  you  are  better  off  using  an
 abbreviation for its name than counting.

 The INFO command "" enters a  recursive editing level for you to  edit
 the text of the  current node.  To  get back to INFO,  you must give  a
 command to exit.  This command is C-M-Z unless your init file redefines
 it.  If you have changed  the text of the node,  then when you visit  a
 node in a different file  INFO will offer to  save this file.  This  is
 because INFO just uses C-X C-V to access files.  You can also save  the
 file explicitly by using  the C-X C-S command  or equivalent while  you
 are still inside the recursive edit.