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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for Stand-alone GNU Info (version 6.8, 22 November 2020), a program for viewing documents in Info format (usually created from Texinfo source files). Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License" in the Texinfo manual. This document is part of a collection distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you want to distribute this document separately from the collection, you can do so by adding a copy of the license to the document, as described in section 6 of the license. --> <title>Index Commands (Stand-alone GNU Info 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Index Commands (Stand-alone GNU Info 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Index Commands (Stand-alone GNU Info 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Index.html" rel="index" title="Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="index.html" rel="up" title="Top"> <link href="Xref-Commands.html" rel="next" title="Xref Commands"> <link href="Searching-Commands.html" rel="prev" title="Searching Commands"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="chapter" id="Index-Commands"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Xref-Commands.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Selecting Cross-references</a>, Previous: <a href="Searching-Commands.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Searching an Info File</a>, Up: <a href="index.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Stand-alone GNU Info</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Index-Commands-1"></span><h2 class="chapter">7 Index Commands</h2> <span id="index-index"></span> <span id="index-indices"></span> <span id="index-indexes"></span> <p>GNU Info has commands to search through the indices of an Info file, which helps you find areas within an Info file which discuss a particular topic. </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dt id='index-i'><span><kbd>i</kbd> (<code>index-search</code>)<a href='#index-i' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><span id="index-index_002dsearch"></span> <span id="index-index_002c-searching"></span> <span id="index-searching_002c-in-the-indices"></span> <p>Look up a string in the indices for this Info file, and select a node to which the found index entry points. </p> </dd> <dt id='index-I'><span><kbd>I</kbd> (<code>virtual-index</code>)<a href='#index-I' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><span id="index-virtual_002dindex"></span> <span id="index-index_002c-virtual"></span> <p>Look up a string in the indices for this Info file, and show all the matches in a new virtual node, synthesized on the fly. </p> </dd> <dt id='index-_002c'><span><kbd>,</kbd> (<code>next-index-match</code>)<a href='#index-_002c' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><span id="index-next_002dindex_002dmatch"></span> <p>Move to the node containing the next matching index item from the last ‘<samp>i</samp>’ command. </p> </dd> <dt id='index-index_002dapropos'><span><kbd>M-x index-apropos</kbd><a href='#index-index_002dapropos' class='copiable-anchor'> ¶</a></span></dt> <dd><p>Grovel the indices of all the known Info files on your system for a string, and build a menu of the possible matches. </p></dd> </dl> <p>The most efficient means of finding something quickly in a manual is the ‘<samp>i</samp>’ command (<code>index-search</code>). This command prompts for a string, and then looks for that string in all the indices of the current Info manual. If it finds a matching index entry, it displays the node to which that entry refers and prints the full text of the entry in the echo area. You can press ‘<samp>,</samp>’ (<code>next-index-match</code>) to find more matches. A good Info manual has all of its important concepts indexed, so the ‘<samp>i</samp>’ command lets you use a manual as a reference. </p> <p>If you don’t know what manual documents something, try the <kbd>M-x index-apropos</kbd> command. It prompts for a string and then looks up that string in all the indices of all the Info documents installed on your system. It can also be invoked from the command line; see <a href="Invoking-Info.html#g_t_002d_002dapropos">--apropos</a>. </p> </div> <hr> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Xref-Commands.html">Selecting Cross-references</a>, Previous: <a href="Searching-Commands.html">Searching an Info File</a>, Up: <a href="index.html">Stand-alone GNU Info</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> </body> </html>
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