INFO
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2014
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NAME
info - read Info documents
SYNOPSIS
info
[
,OPTION/]... [
,MENU-ITEM/...]
DESCRIPTION
Read documentation in Info format.
OPTIONS
- -a, --all
-
use all matching manuals.
- -k, --apropos=,STRING/
-
look up STRING in all indices of all manuals.
- -d, --directory=,DIR/
-
add DIR to INFOPATH.
- --dribble=,FILE/
-
remember user keystrokes in FILENAME.
- -f, --file=,MANUAL/
-
specify Info manual to visit.
- -h, --help
-
display this help and exit.
- --index-search=,STRING/
-
go to node pointed by index entry STRING.
- -n, --node=,NODENAME/
-
specify nodes in first visited Info file.
- -o, --output=,FILE/
-
output selected nodes to FILE.
- -R, --raw-escapes
-
output "raw" ANSI escapes (default).
- --no-raw-escapes
-
output escapes as literal text.
- --restore=,FILE/
-
read initial keystrokes from FILE.
- -O, --show-options, --usage
-
go to command-line options node.
- --strict-node-location
-
(for debugging) use Info file pointers as-is.
- --subnodes
-
recursively output menu items.
- -v, --variable VAR=VALUE
-
assign VALUE to Info variable VAR.
- --vi-keys
-
use vi-like and less-like key bindings.
- --version
-
display version information and exit.
- -w, --where, --location
-
print physical location of Info file.
- -x, --debug=,NUMBER/
-
set debugging level (-1 for all).
The first non-option argument, if present, is the menu entry to start from;
it is searched for in all `dir' files along INFOPATH.
If it is not present, info merges all `dir' files and shows the result.
Any remaining arguments are treated as the names of menu
items relative to the initial node visited.
For a summary of key bindings, type h within Info.
EXAMPLES
- info
-
show top-level dir menu
- info info
-
show the general manual for Info readers
- info info-stnd
-
show the manual specific to this Info program
- info emacs
-
start at emacs node from top-level dir
- info emacs buffers
-
start at buffers node within emacs manual
- info --show-options emacs
-
start at node with emacs' command line options
- info --subnodes -o out.txt emacs
-
dump entire manual to out.txt
- info -f ./foo.info
-
show file ./foo.info, not searching dir
REPORTING BUGS
Email bug reports to
bug-texinfo@gnu.org,
general questions and discussion to
help-texinfo@gnu.org.
Texinfo home page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
info
is provided by the
texinfo-doc-nonfree
package as a Texinfo manual. If this package is installed at your site,
the command
-
info info
should give you access to the complete manual.
(Or, if you have Emacs, M-x info will lead to the manual.)
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- EXAMPLES
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- COPYRIGHT
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- SEE ALSO
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