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This release of Info is version 2.8. Please read the file README.
Changes since 2.5 beta:
Note that versions 2.6 and 2.7 Beta were only released to a select group.
* "info-" removed from the front of M-x commands.
* Automatic footnote display. When you enter a node which contains
footnotes, and the variable "automatic-footnotes" is "On", Info pops
up a window containing the footnotes. Likewise, when you leave that
node, the window containing the footnotes goes away.
* Cleaner built in documentation, and documentation functions.
Use:
o `M-x describe-variable' to read a variable's documenation
o `M-x describe-key' to find out what a particular keystroke does.
o `M-x describe-function' to read a function's documentation.
o `M-x where-is' to find out what keys invoke a particular function.
* Info can "tile" the displayed windows (via "M-x tile-windows"). If
the variable "automatic-tiling" is "On", then splitting a window or
deleting a window causes the remaining windows to be retiled.
* You can save every keystroke you type in a "dribble file" by using the
`--dribble FILENAME' option. You can initially read keystrokes from an
alternate input stream with `--restore FILENAME', or by redirecting
input on the command line `info < old-dribble'.
* New behaviour of menu items. If the label is the same as the
target node name, and the node couldn't be found in the current file,
treat the label as a file name. For example, a menu entry in "DIR"
might contain:
* Emacs:: Cool text-editor.
Info would not find the node "(dir)Emacs", so just plain "(emacs)"
would be tried.
* New variable "ISO-Latin" allows you to use European machines with
8-bit character sets.
* Cleanups in echo area reading, and redisplay. Cleanups in handling the
window which shows possible completions.
* Info can now read files that have been compressed. An array in filesys.c
maps extensions to programs that can decompress stdin, and write the results
to stdout. Currently, ".Z"/uncompress, ".z"/gunzip, and ".Y"/unyabba are
supported. The modeline for a compressed file shows "zz" in it.
* There is a new variable "gc-compressed-files" which, if non-zero, says
it is okay to reclaim the file buffer space allocated to a file which
was compressed, if, and only if, that file's contents do not appear in
any history node.
* New file `nodemenu.c' implements a few functions for manipulating
previously visited nodes. `C-x C-b' (list-visited-nodes) produces a
menu of the nodes that could be reached by info-history-node in some
window. `C-x b' (select-visited-node) is similar, but reads one of
the node names with completion.
* Keystroke `M-r' (move_to_screen_line) allows the user to place the cursor at
the start of a specific screen line. Without a numeric argument, place the
cursor on the center line; with an arg, place the cursor on that line.
* Interruptible display implemented. Basic display speedups and hacks.
* The message "*** Tags Out of Date ***" now means what it says.
* Index searching with `,' (info-index-next) has been improved.
* When scrolling with C-v, C-M-v, or M-v, only "Page Only" scrolling
will happen.
* Continous scrolling (along with `]' (info-global-next) and `['
(info-global-prev) works better. `]' and `[' accept numeric
arguments, moving that many nodes in that case.
* `C-x w' (info-toggle-wrap) controls how lines wider than the width
of the screen are displayed. If a line is too long, a `$' is
displayed in the rightmost column of the window.
* There are some new variables for controlling the behaviour of Info
interactively. The current list of variables is as follows:
Variable Name Default Value Description
------------- ------------- -----------
`automatic-footnotes' On When "On", footnotes appear and
disappear automatically.
`automatic-tiling' Off When "On", creating of deleting a
window resizes other windows.
`visible-bell' Off If non-zero, try to use a visible bell.
`errors-ring-bell' On If non-zero, errors cause a ring.
`show-index-match' On If non-zero, the portion of the string
matched is highlighted by changing its
case.
`scroll-behaviour' Continuous One of "Continuous", "Next Only", or
"Page Only". "Page Only" prevents you from
scrolling past the bottom or top of a node.
"Next Only" causes the Next or Prev node to
be selected when you scroll past the bottom
or top of a node. "Continous" moves
linearly through the files hierchichal
structure.
`scroll-step' 0 Controls how scrolling is done for you when
the cursor moves out of the current window.
Non-zero means it is the number of lines
you would like the screen to shift. A
value of 0 means to center the line
containing the cursor in the window.
`gc-compressed-files' Off If non-zero means it is okay to reclaim the
file buffer space allocated to a file which
was compressed, if, and only if, that
file's contents do not appear in the node
list of any window.
`ISO-Latin' Off Non-zero means that you are using an ISO
Latin character set. By default, standard
ASCII characters are assumed.
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This release of Info is version 2.5 beta.
Changes since 2.4 beta:
* Index (i) and (,) commands fully implemented.
* "configure" script now shipped with Info.
* New function "set-variable" allows users to set various variables.
* User-settable behaviour on end or beginning of node scrolling. This
supercedes the SPC and DEL changes in 2.3 beta.
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This release of Info is version 2.4 beta.
Changes since 2.3 beta:
* info-last-node now means move to the last node of this info file.
* info-history-node means move backwards through this window's node history.
* info-first-node moves to the first node in the Info file. This node is
not necessarily "Top"!
* SPC and DEL can select the Next or Prev node after printing an informative
message when pressed at the end/beg of a node.
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This release of Info is version 2.3 beta.
Changes since 2.2 beta:
* M-x command lines if NAMED_COMMANDS is #defined. Variable in Makefile.
* Screen height changes made quite robust.
* Interactive function "set-screen-height" implements user height changes.
* Scrolling on some terminals is faster now.
* C-l with numeric arguement is fixed.
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This release of Info is version 2.2 beta.
Changes since 2.0:
* C-g can now interrupt multi-file searches.
* Incremental search is fully implemented.
* Loading large tag tables is much faster now.
* makedoc.c replaces shell script, speeding incremental builds.
* Scrolling in redisplay is implemented.
* Recursive uses of the echo area made more robust.
* Garbage collection of unreferenced nodes.