info (Unix)
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| Stable release | 4.11 |
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| Operating system | GNU |
| Type | Documentation Viewer |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ |
info is a software utility which forms a hypertextual, multipage documentation and help viewer working on a command line interface, useful when there is no GUI available.
info processes info files, which are Texinfo formatted files, and presents the documentation as a tree, with simple commands to traverse the tree and to follow cross references. For instance
- n goes to the next page.
- p goes to the previous page.
- u goes to the upper page.
- l goes to the last(visited) node
- To follow a cross reference, the cursor can be moved over a link (a word preceded by a *) and enter pressed.
The C implementation of info was designed as the main documentation system of GNU based Operating Systems and was then ported to other Unix-like operating systems. However, info files had already been in use on ITS emacs.
[edit] List of Texinfo readers
- info
- pinfo
- tkman
- tkinfo
- khelpcenter (click "Browse Info Pages")
- emacs
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