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Expanded and reworded paragraph describing info format.
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brickviking committed Jun 10, 2024
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*** info
This is a help format that's used internally for the help documentation of Emacs. It's written in a
cut-down version of TeX called texinfo, which is then compiled to create an info document for use
with the standalone info command or the internal help (=C-h i=). It contains formatting, links and a
syntax for moving the cursor around between sections that's much like the [[#emacs-movement-keys][Emacs movement keys]]
section below.
This is a help format that's used internally for the help documentation of Emacs, as well as for
system information on UNIX and Unix-like systems. It's written in a cut-down version of TeX called
texinfo, which is then compiled to create an info document for use with the standalone info command
or the internal help (=C-h i=). It uses [[#emacs-movement-keys][Emacs movement keys]] to move
around, and supports various ways to format text. An info document can also contain links to other content, both within the same document, or to other documents in info format.

** What different keys mean
:PROPERTIES:
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