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The
mode line
A mode
line is a line of inverse video which appears at the bottom of an info
window. It describes the contents of the previously displayed window; this
information includes the name of the file and node appearing in that window,
the number of screen lines it takes to display the node, and the percentage
of text that is above the top of the window. It can also tell you if the
indirect tags table for this info
file needs to be updated, and whether or not the info file was compressed
when stored on disk. The following is a sample mode line for a window containing
an uncompressed file named ‘dir’,
showing the node ‘Top’.
-----Info: (dir)Top, 40 lines --Top-------------------------
ˆˆˆ ˆˆˆ ˆˆ
(file)Node #lines where
When a
node comes from a file which is compressed on disk, this is indicated in
the mode line with two small ‘z’s.
In addition, if the info
file containing the node has been split into subfiles, the name of the
subfile containing the node appears in the modeline as well.
--zz-Info: (emacs)Top, 291 lines --Top-- Subfile: emacs-1.Z-
When info
makes a node internally, such that there is no corresponding info
file on disk, the name of the node is surrounded by asterisks (‘*’).
The name itself tells you what the contents of the window are; the following
sample mode line shows an internally constructed node showing possible
one possible completion.
-----Info: *Completions*, 7 lines --All---------------------
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