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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.
- ________________________________________
- 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.
-
-