1This release of Info is version 2.11. Please read the file README. 2 3Version 2.11, Sat Apr 1 09:15:21 1995 4 5Changes since 2.7 beta: 6 7Although the basic code remains the same, there are numerous nits 8fixed, including some display bugs, and a memory leak. Some changes 9that have taken place with larger impact include the way in which the 10(dir) node is built; I have added in support for "localdir" 11directories among other things. Info files may be stored in 12compressed formats, and in their own subdirectories; menu items which 13do not explicitly name the node to which they are attached have the 14menu item name looked up as an Info file if it is not found within the 15current document. This means that the menu item: 16 17* Info:: The Info documentation reader. 18 19in (dir) refers to the info node "(info)Top". 20 21Please see the ChangeLog and documentation for details on other 22changes. 23 24Version 2.7 beta, Wed Dec 30 02:02:38 1992 25Version 2.6 beta, Tue Dec 22 03:58:07 1992 26Version 2.5 beta, Tue Dec 8 14:50:35 1992 27Version 2.4 beta, Sat Nov 28 14:34:02 1992 28Version 2.3 beta, Fri Nov 27 01:04:13 1992 29Version 2.2 beta, Tue Nov 24 09:36:08 1992 30Version 2.1 beta, Tue Nov 17 23:29:36 1992 31 32Changes since 2.5 beta: 33 34Note that versions 2.6 and 2.7 Beta were only released to a select group. 35 36* "info-" removed from the front of M-x commands. 37 38* Automatic footnote display. When you enter a node which contains 39 footnotes, and the variable "automatic-footnotes" is "On", Info pops 40 up a window containing the footnotes. Likewise, when you leave that 41 node, the window containing the footnotes goes away. 42 43* Cleaner built in documentation, and documentation functions. 44 45 Use: 46 o `M-x describe-variable' to read a variable's documenation 47 o `M-x describe-key' to find out what a particular keystroke does. 48 o `M-x describe-function' to read a function's documentation. 49 o `M-x where-is' to find out what keys invoke a particular function. 50 51* Info can "tile" the displayed windows (via "M-x tile-windows"). If 52 the variable "automatic-tiling" is "On", then splitting a window or 53 deleting a window causes the remaining windows to be retiled. 54 55* You can save every keystroke you type in a "dribble file" by using the 56 `--dribble FILENAME' option. You can initially read keystrokes from an 57 alternate input stream with `--restore FILENAME', or by redirecting 58 input on the command line `info < old-dribble'. 59 60* New behaviour of menu items. If the label is the same as the 61 target node name, and the node couldn't be found in the current file, 62 treat the label as a file name. For example, a menu entry in "DIR" 63 might contain: 64 65 * Emacs:: Cool text-editor. 66 67 Info would not find the node "(dir)Emacs", so just plain "(emacs)" 68 would be tried. 69 70* New variable "ISO-Latin" allows you to use European machines with 71 8-bit character sets. 72 73* Cleanups in echo area reading, and redisplay. Cleanups in handling the 74 window which shows possible completions. 75 76* Info can now read files that have been compressed. An array in filesys.c 77 maps extensions to programs that can decompress stdin, and write the results 78 to stdout. Currently, ".Z"/uncompress, ".z"/gunzip, and ".Y"/unyabba are 79 supported. The modeline for a compressed file shows "zz" in it. 80 81* There is a new variable "gc-compressed-files" which, if non-zero, says 82 it is okay to reclaim the file buffer space allocated to a file which 83 was compressed, if, and only if, that file's contents do not appear in 84 any history node. 85 86* New file `nodemenu.c' implements a few functions for manipulating 87 previously visited nodes. `C-x C-b' (list-visited-nodes) produces a 88 menu of the nodes that could be reached by info-history-node in some 89 window. `C-x b' (select-visited-node) is similar, but reads one of 90 the node names with completion. 91 92* Keystroke `M-r' (move_to_screen_line) allows the user to place the cursor at 93 the start of a specific screen line. Without a numeric argument, place the 94 cursor on the center line; with an arg, place the cursor on that line. 95 96* Interruptible display implemented. Basic display speedups and hacks. 97* The message "*** Tags Out of Date ***" now means what it says. 98* Index searching with `,' (info-index-next) has been improved. 99* When scrolling with C-v, C-M-v, or M-v, only "Page Only" scrolling 100 will happen. 101 102* Continous scrolling (along with `]' (info-global-next) and `[' 103 (info-global-prev) works better. `]' and `[' accept numeric 104 arguments, moving that many nodes in that case. 105 106* `C-x w' (info-toggle-wrap) controls how lines wider than the width 107 of the screen are displayed. If a line is too long, a `$' is 108 displayed in the rightmost column of the window. 109 110* There are some new variables for controlling the behaviour of Info 111 interactively. The current list of variables is as follows: 112 113 Variable Name Default Value Description 114 ------------- ------------- ----------- 115 `automatic-footnotes' On When "On", footnotes appear and 116 disappear automatically. 117 118 `automatic-tiling' Off When "On", creating of deleting a 119 window resizes other windows. 120 121 `visible-bell' Off If non-zero, try to use a visible bell. 122 123 `errors-ring-bell' On If non-zero, errors cause a ring. 124 125 `show-index-match' On If non-zero, the portion of the string 126 matched is highlighted by changing its 127 case. 128 129 `scroll-behaviour' Continuous One of "Continuous", "Next Only", or 130 "Page Only". "Page Only" prevents you from 131 scrolling past the bottom or top of a node. 132 "Next Only" causes the Next or Prev node to 133 be selected when you scroll past the bottom 134 or top of a node. "Continous" moves 135 linearly through the files hierchichal 136 structure. 137 138 `scroll-step' 0 Controls how scrolling is done for you when 139 the cursor moves out of the current window. 140 Non-zero means it is the number of lines 141 you would like the screen to shift. A 142 value of 0 means to center the line 143 containing the cursor in the window. 144 145 `gc-compressed-files' Off If non-zero means it is okay to reclaim the 146 file buffer space allocated to a file which 147 was compressed, if, and only if, that 148 file's contents do not appear in the node 149 list of any window. 150 151 `ISO-Latin' Off Non-zero means that you are using an ISO 152 Latin character set. By default, standard 153 ASCII characters are assumed. 154________________________________________ 155This release of Info is version 2.5 beta. 156 157Changes since 2.4 beta: 158 159* Index (i) and (,) commands fully implemented. 160* "configure" script now shipped with Info. 161* New function "set-variable" allows users to set various variables. 162* User-settable behaviour on end or beginning of node scrolling. This 163 supercedes the SPC and DEL changes in 2.3 beta. 164 165________________________________________ 166This release of Info is version 2.4 beta. 167 168Changes since 2.3 beta: 169 170* info-last-node now means move to the last node of this info file. 171* info-history-node means move backwards through this window's node history. 172* info-first-node moves to the first node in the Info file. This node is 173 not necessarily "Top"! 174* SPC and DEL can select the Next or Prev node after printing an informative 175 message when pressed at the end/beg of a node. 176 177---------------------------------------- 178This release of Info is version 2.3 beta. 179 180Changes since 2.2 beta: 181 182* M-x command lines if NAMED_COMMANDS is #defined. Variable in Makefile. 183* Screen height changes made quite robust. 184* Interactive function "set-screen-height" implements user height changes. 185* Scrolling on some terminals is faster now. 186* C-l with numeric arguement is fixed. 187 188---------------------------------------- 189This release of Info is version 2.2 beta. 190 191Changes since 2.0: 192 193* C-g can now interrupt multi-file searches. 194* Incremental search is fully implemented. 195* Loading large tag tables is much faster now. 196* makedoc.c replaces shell script, speeding incremental builds. 197* Scrolling in redisplay is implemented. 198* Recursive uses of the echo area made more robust. 199* Garbage collection of unreferenced nodes. 200 201