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. ________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________ 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. ---------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------- 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.