Info Mode

Despite the name of this section there is actually no such thing as the info-mode. The Lisp file `info.jl' is what this section documents -- it is a set of Lisp functions which make a buffer (the `*Info*' buffer) into a simple browser for Info files(6).}.

To invoke it type Ctrl-h i, the `*Info*' buffer will be selected showing the `(dir)' node (the root of the Info documentation tree).

When in the `*Info*' buffer the following key bindings are available.

SPC

Displays the next page of the current node.

Backspace

Displays the previous page.

1

Move to the specified menu-item (1 means the first, etc) in the menu in this node. The keys 1 to 9 work in this way.

b

Move to the beginning of the current node.

d

Display the directory node (`(dir)') of the Info documentation tree.

f

Follow a reference, the one under the cursor if one exists.

g

Prompt for the name of a node and try to display it.

h

Display the Info tutorial node (`(info)Help').

l

Go back to the last node that was displayed before this one.

m

Prompts for a menu-item (the one on the same line as the cursor is the default) and display the node it points to.

n

Display the next node.

p

Display the previous node.

u

Display the node "above" this one.

v

Prompts for the name of an Info file, then displays this file's root node.

q

Quit the Info browser.

?

Display a piece of text describing all commands available in Info mode.

RET

Go to the link (menu item or xref) described on the current line.

LMB-Click2

Go to the link you double clicked on.

TAB

Put the cursor on the next link in this node.

Meta-TAB

Put the cursor on the previous link.

This mode has a number of disadvantages over the other Info browsers available (i.e. the stand-alone info program, or Emacs' Info viewer):

• It depends wholly on being able to find a tag table in the Info file, if it can't it will simply load the whole file into the buffer.
• There is no support for the * node name.
• Seems not to work 100% with files formatted by Emacs, makeinfo formatted files work properly though.
• No editing of nodes.

Of course, its main advantage is that it runs in Jade!

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