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Selecting
a new node
The
following documentation details the numerous info
commands which select a new node to view in the current window.
The most basic node commands
are n,
p,
u,
and l.
When you are viewing a node,
the top line of the node contains some info
pointers which describe where the next, previous,
and up nodes are. info
uses this line to move about the node structure of the file when
you type the following commands.
-
n
(next-node)
-
p
(prev-node)
-
Selects the Prev
(previous) node.
-
u
(up-node)
You can easily select a node
that you have already viewed in this window by using the l
command (this name stands for last), to actually move through the
list of already visited nodes for this window. l
with a negative numeric argument moves forward through the history of nodes
for this window, so you can quickly step between two adjacent (in viewing
history) nodes.
-
l
(history-node)
-
Selects the most recently selected
node in this window.
Two additional commands make
it easy to select the most commonly selected nodes; they are t
and d.
-
t
(top-node)
-
Selects the node Top
in the current info file.
-
d
(dir-node)
-
Selects the directory node (i.e.,
the node, (dir)).
The following are some other
commands which immediately result in the selection of a different node
in the current window.
-
<
(first-node)
-
Selects the first node which
appears in this file. This node is most often Top, but it doesnt have
to be.
-
>
(last-node)
-
Selects the last node which
appears in this file.
-
]
(global-next-node)
-
Moves forward or down through
node structure. If the node that you are currently viewing has a Next
pointer, that node is selected. Otherwise, if this node has a menu, the
first menu item is selected. If there is no Next
and no menu, the same process is tried with the Up
node of this node.
-
[
(global-prev-node)
-
Moves backward or up through
node structure. If the node that you are currently viewing has a Prev
pointer, that node is selected. Otherwise, if the node has an Up
pointer, that node is selected, and if it has a menu, the last item in
the menu is selected.
global-next-node
and global-prev-node
behave the same as simply scrolling through the file with Spacebar
and Del;
see scroll-behavior
in Manipulating
variables for more information.
-
g
(goto-node)
-
Reads the name of a node and
selects it. No completion is done while reading the node name, since the
desired node may reside in a separate file. The node must be typed exactly
as it appears in the info
file. A file name may be included as with any node specification,
as in the following example.
g(emacs)Buffers
This input finds the Buffers
node in the emacs
info
file.
C-x,
k
(kill-node)
-
Kills a node. The node name
is prompted for in the echo area, with a default of the current node. Killing
a node means that info
tries hard to forget about it, removing it from the list of history
nodes kept for the window where that node is found. Another node is selected
in the window which contained the killed node.
-
C-x,
C-f
(view-file)
-
Reads the name of a file and
selects the entire file.
-
C-x,
C-f
filename
is equivalent to using the keystroke and command sequence, g(filename)*.
-
C-x,
C-b
(list-visited-nodes)
-
Makes a window containing a
menu of all of the currently visited nodes. This window becomes the selected
window, and you may use the standard info
commands within it.
-
C-x,
b
(select-visited-node)
-
Selects a node which has been
previously visited in a visible window. This is similar to C-x,
C-b
followed by m,
but no window is created.
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