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Info: An Introduction
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The GNU Project distributes most of its manuals in the “Info format”,
which you read using an “Info reader”. You are probably using an Info
reader to read this now.
There are two primary Info readers: ‘info’, a stand-alone program
designed just to read Info files (
What is Info? (info-stnd)Top.),
and the ‘info’ package in GNU Emacs, a general-purpose editor. At
present, only the Emacs reader supports using a mouse.
If you are new to the Info reader and want to learn how to use it,
type the command ‘h’ now. It brings you to a programmed instruction
sequence.
To read about advanced Info commands, type ‘n’ twice. This brings
you to ‘Advanced Info Commands’, skipping over the “Getting Started”
chapter.
If you are using Emacs, type ‘?’ to see a summary of all available
commands. In the stand-alone Info reader, type ‘H’ instead.
This file describes how to use Info, the menu-driven GNU
documentation system.
Copyright © 1989, 1992, 1996–2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software
Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with the Front-Cover Texts
being “A GNU Manual,” and with the Back-Cover Texts as in (a)
below. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
“GNU Free Documentation License”.
(a) The FSF’s Back-Cover Text is: “You have the freedom to copy and
modify this GNU manual.”
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