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@settitle Info
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@comment $Id: info.texi,v 1.29 2003/07/04 21:07:23 teirllm Exp $

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This file describes how to use Info, the on-line, menu-driven GNU
documentation system.

output, it gets saved to file just like any other text, and so on.
Thus it is useful to know it is there.

@findex visible-mode
You can make invisible text visible by using the command @kbd{M-x
visible-mode}.  @code{visible-mode} is a minor mode, so using it a
second time will make the text invisible again.  Use this command and
watch its effect on the ``menu'' below and the top line of this node.

If you prefer to @emph{always} see the invisible text, you can set
@code{Info-hide-note-references} to @code{nil}.  Enabling
@code{visible-mode} permanently is not a real alternative, because
Emacs Info also uses (although less extensively) another text property
that can change the text being displayed, the @samp{display} property.
Only the invisibility property is affected by @code{visible-mode}.
When, in this tutorial, we refer to the @samp{Emacs} behavior, we mean
the @emph{default} Emacs behavior.

Now type @kbd{]}, to learn about the @kbd{]} and @kbd{[} commands.

@menu
* ]:         Help-].               Node telling about ].

Information.  [[ But this line is not a real menu item, simply because
there is no line above it which starts with @w{@samp{* Menu:}}.  Also,
in a real menu item, the @samp{*} would appear at the very start of
the line.  This is why the ``normally hidden'' text in Emacs, namely
@samp{: Node about FOO.}, is actually visible in this example, even
when @code{visible-mode} is off.]]

  When you use a menu to go to another node (in a way that will be
described soon), what you specify is the subtopic name, the first
thing in the menu line.  Info uses it to find the menu line, extracts
the node name from it, and goes to that node.  The reason that there

* Foo:  Help-FOO.       A node you can visit for fun.
* Bar:  Help-FOO.       We have made two ways to get to the same place.
* Help-FOO::            And yet another!
@end menu

(Turn @code{visible-mode} on if you are using Emacs.)

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>>  Now type just an @kbd{m} and see what happens:
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@settitle Info
@syncodeindex fn cp
@syncodeindex vr cp
@syncodeindex ky cp
@comment %**end of header
@comment $Id: info.texi,v 1.30 2003/07/08 01:21:43 teirllm Exp $

@copying
This file describes how to use Info, the on-line, menu-driven GNU
documentation system.

output, it gets saved to file just like any other text, and so on.
Thus it is useful to know it is there.

@findex visible-mode
You can make invisible text visible by using the command @kbd{M-x
visible-mode}.  @dfn{Visible mode} is a minor mode, so using the
command a second time will make the text invisible again.  Watch the
effects of the command on the ``menu'' below and the top line of this
node.

If you prefer to @emph{always} see the invisible text, you can set
@code{Info-hide-note-references} to @code{nil}.  Enabling Visible mode
permanently is not a real alternative, because Emacs Info also uses
(although less extensively) another text property that can change the
text being displayed, the @samp{display} property.  Only the
invisibility property is affected by Visible mode.  When, in this
tutorial, we refer to the @samp{Emacs} behavior, we mean the
@emph{default} Emacs behavior.

Now type @kbd{]}, to learn about the @kbd{]} and @kbd{[} commands.

@menu
* ]:         Help-].               Node telling about ].

Information.  [[ But this line is not a real menu item, simply because
there is no line above it which starts with @w{@samp{* Menu:}}.  Also,
in a real menu item, the @samp{*} would appear at the very start of
the line.  This is why the ``normally hidden'' text in Emacs, namely
@samp{: Node about FOO.}, is actually visible in this example, even
when Visible mode is off.]]

  When you use a menu to go to another node (in a way that will be
described soon), what you specify is the subtopic name, the first
thing in the menu line.  Info uses it to find the menu line, extracts
the node name from it, and goes to that node.  The reason that there

* Foo:  Help-FOO.       A node you can visit for fun.
* Bar:  Help-FOO.       We have made two ways to get to the same place.
* Help-FOO::            And yet another!
@end menu

(Turn Visible mode on if you are using Emacs.)

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>>  Now type just an @kbd{m} and see what happens:
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