This page is about Info mode (‘C-h i’), a major mode for reading hypertext manuals. In particular, the EmacsManual is available in Emacs as an Info manual, providing SelfDocumentation.
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Here are some common Info commands. Use ‘C-h m’ in an Info buffer to learn more. You can also read the Info manual about Info (!). It includes a tutorial about Info.
‘i’ – Search through the manual’s indexes for a regexp‘s’ (also ‘C-s’ or ‘C-M-s’ in Emacs 22) – Search for a string or regexp‘g’ – Go to a node by name‘m’ – Choose a menu itemSuppose you want to read an Info manual that is not in your InfoPath – file miscpackage.info in the current directory, for instance. Here are several ways to do that – the first is generally the easiest:
‘C-u C-h i’C-x C-f miscpackage.info M-x Info-on-current-buffer’C-x C-f miscpackage.info M-: (Info-mode)’‘dired-x’ does this automatically. (define-key dired-mode-map "I"
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(info (dired-get-filename))))‘Info-merge-subnodes’, which can put all nodes related to something into a single page. This is my fondest wish for info: to have everything on one page so that I can just navigate normally without the hierarchy. (Strange, isn’t it?) – [[Gambarimasu?]]‘g’, ‘i’) – browse among the hits. Create virtual manuals as arbitrary node sets. Use Icicles search with Info.Anything is a candidate selection framework.
Start with M-x anything-info-at-point, narrow the list by typing some patterns(multiple patterns are space-delimited string), select with up/down/pgup/pgdown/C-p/C-n/C-v/M-v, choose with enter, With C-z description of selected symbol are displayed without quitting anything session.
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