[TriLUG] Easy Info reference

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 10:07, John F Davis wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I'm with mike on info pages.  I have trouble backtracking in info.  Instead
> of just hitting back arrow like in lynx, its sometimes its b for backward,
> and p for previous.  (Do they have a u for Up as well?  I can't remember.)
> 
> Also, I always use the id-utils on a box, but for the life of me, I haven't
> been able to get the id-utils info pages incorporated in the main info
> database.  Yes, I've read the docs.  Its supposed to be simple, but I
> couldn't get it to insert in the index like its supposed to.  The words
> appear there, but selecting the topic doesn't open the actual file.
> 
> Man and apropos are your friend.  I'm not so sure about info especially
> since I'm way more familiar with VI than Emacs.
> 
> JD

Okay, here's an easy info reference to remember.  Anything with a *
is generally a link you can follow.  Just go to the label following
the * and hit enter.  It will bring up a new section which, after 
you've finished you can exit that section with the <Ctrl>-x k [enter]
(Long time emacs users will recognize this a the command to kill
a buffer.)

Probably the only other thing that I find useful is the search
function, which you can reach by hitting <Ctrl>-s.  This is an
incremental search, so as you type it tries to find a new match.
If you want to find the second match, after typing in a query,
hit <Ctrl>-s a second time (3rd match = hit it a 3rd time, etc..).

The last thing you should remember is the exit command.  It's
<Ctrl>-x c.

And that's pretty much all you need to use info.  Sure, there are
other commands, but those are the most used.

For those of you who think the commands are cryptic, just think
of it this way (although how vi people can think emacs keys are
cryptic is beyond me :), the most common commands start with
<Ctrl>-x.  Do that first, and then do the command you want.

k = kill window
c = close

Search, because it is presumably used more often, doesn't use
the <Ctrl>-x prefix and you just access it directly with
<Ctrl>-s.

Info isn't that hard.  You just have to know the commands.
It's just like learning new commands in [insert your favorite
editor here] or learning to use man.

Tanner
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