info

GNU specific manual format and viewer.

Input format: .info files, which are generated from .texi files with makeinfo.

Each page contains lots of info, more than man pages, may even contain, gasp, examples!

Sample invocation:

info
info rm

The key bindings are very tree/node based, and quite different form Vim. To get started:

?: help
x: close help

Page:

space: down one page. May change nodes.
backspace: up one page. May change nodes.
b, e: beginning/end of current node.
s, /: search string
{, }: repeat search back/forward

Menu:

arrow keys: move cursor
enter: go to link under cursor
tab: go to next link
1-9: go to menu item number
m: select menu item in current page by name.

Can tab complete.

Even without tab complete, goes to first match on enter.

Node:

u: parent node
t: top node
[,, ]: next previous node. May change node level
n, p: same as [ and ], but cannot change node level
l: go to last viewed node. can be used several times
g: like m, but search all nodes

Search:

/: regex
{: next match of previous search
}: previous