tkinfo - program to view GNU Info files
tkinfo [ --help ] [ -headers |
+headers ] [ -buttons | +buttons ] [
-scrollthrough | +scrollthrough ] [ -pagesep |
+pagesep ] [ -showdir | +showdir ] [ -balloons |
+balloons ] [ -linklook type ] [ -highlight
type ] [ -searchlook type ] [ -geometry
geom ] [ -display display ] [ -iconic ] [
-dir dir1 ] [ -dir dir2 ] ... [ node
]
tkinfo is a graphical browser for documentation in the GNU
Info hypertext format.
- --help
- Produces a short help message.
- -/+headers
- Turns on/off display of the raw info node headers in the first line of the
window. Default is on.
- -/+buttons
- Turns on/off display of the button row. Default is on.
- -/+balloons
- Turns on/off balloonhelp for the buttons. Default is on.
- -/+scrollthrough
- Turns on/off jumping to the successor node when attempting to scroll at
the bottom of a node. Default is on.
- -/+pagesep
- Turns on/off inserting of page separators when scrolling page-wise.
Default is on.
- -/+showdir
- Turns on/off showing the full pathname of the displayed info file. Default
is off.
- -linklook
type
- Specifies how to display cross references and menu entries. type
must be one of "color", "font", or
"underline". Default is "color" on color displays and
"underline" on black and white displays.
- -highlight
type
- Specifies how to highlight links. type must be one of
"color", "inverse", or "underline". Default
is "inverse".
- -searchlook
type
- Specifies how to highlight matches after searches. type must be one
of "color", "inverse", or "underline".
Default is "inverse".
- -geometry
geom
- Geometry of the window. geom must be of the form XxY+A+B or XxY or
+A+B, where X and Y specify the size of the window in characters and A and
B the location in pixels.
- -display
display
- X display to use for the tkinfo window.
- -iconic
- Start the first window in iconic state.
- -dir dir
- Specifies directories to search for info files, in addition to those
contained in the INFOPATH environment variable. The directories specified
with -dir will be searched first, in the order given.
- node
- Specifies the info node to visit initially. Possible formats for
node are:
"(filename)nodename" most general
"(filename)" equivalent to (filename)Top
"filename" equivalent to (filename).
If filename is not absolute, the info directories (from INFOPATH
and -dir) will be searched. If filename cannot be found, its lower case
version will be tried.
An alternative way to specify the node "(FILE)NODE" is
with "-file FILE -node NODE".
If no node is given, the default node "(dir)Top"
is used.
- INFOPATH
- A colon (``:'') separated list of directories to search for info files.
More directories can be given with -dir options, above. If not set,
tkinfo will try various standard directories that should be ok for
most systems.
- INFOSUFFIX
- A colon separated list of file suffixes to try when searching for an info
file. If not set, tkinfo will try the suffixes "",
".info", and "-info". In addition, tkinfo will
always automatically try the suffixes .Z, .z, and .gz and deal with the
compressed file if necessary.
The program documents itself in the info format: start it and type
´h´. Customization via X resources is also documented in that
way.
You can get additional information and the latest version of
tkinfo on the WWW at
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/~axel/tkinfo/
This manual page was written by Craig Sanders
<cas@taz.net.au> for the Debian GNU/Linux system and released under
the GNU General Public License. Some changes were made by Axel Boldt
<axelboldt@yahoo.com>.