1 .TH info 1 "7th December 1990"
3 info \- GNU's hypertext system
7 .B \-\-option-name option-value
11 .if n Copyright (C) 1989, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
12 .if t Copyright \(co 1989, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
15 The GNU project has a hypertext system called
17 which allows the same source file to be either printed as a
18 paper manual, or viewed using
20 It is possible to use the
22 program from inside Emacs, or to use the stand-alone version described here.
23 This manual page gives a brief summary of its capabilities.
27 .B \-\-directory directory-path
30 to the list of directory paths searched when
32 needs to find a file. You may issue
35 Alternatively, you may specify a value for the environment variable
39 is not given, the value of
43 is a colon separated list of directory names. If you do not supply either
46 .B \-\-directory-path,
53 file to visit. By default,
58 if you use this option,
62 as the first file and node.
65 Specify a particular node to visit in the initial file that
67 loads. This is especially useful in conjunction with
76 instead of starting an interactive
81 Produce a relatively brief description of the available
86 Print the version information of
92 treats its remaining arguments as the names of menu items.
93 The first argument is a menu item in the initial node visited,
94 while the second argument is a menu item in the first argument's
95 node. You can easily move to the node of your choice by
96 specifying the menu names which describe the path to that node.
101 first selects the menu item
105 and then selects the menu item
112 the following commands are available:
115 Invoke the Info tutorial.
118 Get a short summary of
125 node from the main directory; this is much more complete than just
130 Abort whatever you are doing.
135 Selecting other nodes:
138 Move to the "next" node of this node.
141 Move to the "previous" node of this node.
144 Move to this node's "up" node.
147 Pick a menu item specified by name. Picking a menu item causes another
148 node to be selected. You do not need to type a complete nodename; if
149 you type a few letters and then a space or tab
151 will try to fill in the rest of the nodename. If you ask for further
152 completion without typing any more characters you'll be given a list
153 of possibilities; you can also get the list with
155 If you type a few characters and then hit return
157 will try to do a completion, and if it is ambigous use the first possibility.
160 Follow a cross reference. You are asked for the name of the reference,
161 using command completion as for
165 Move to the last node you were at.
167 Moving within a node:
170 Scroll forward a page.
173 Scroll backward a page.
176 Go to the beginning of this node.
185 Pick first item in node's menu.
188 Pick second ... fifth item in node's menu.
191 Move to node specified by name. You may include a filename as well,
193 .B (FILENAME)NODENAME.
198 file for a specified string, and select the node in which
199 the next occurrence is found.
202 Pipe the contents of the current node through the command in the
204 .B INFO_PRINT_COMMAND.
205 If the variable does not exist, the node is simply piped to
210 A colon-separated list of directories to search for
216 .B INFO_PRINT_COMMAND
217 The command used for printing.
222 Brian Fox, Free Software Foundation
227 Robert Lupton; updated by Robert J. Chassell.
229 rhl@astro.princeton.edu; bob@gnu.ai.mit.edu