Selecting a New Node
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This section details the numerous Info commands which select a new node
to view in the current window.

The most basic node commands are `n', `p', `u', and `l'.

When you are viewing a node, the top line of the node contains some Info
"pointers" which describe where the next, previous, and up nodes are.
Info uses this line to move about the node structure of the file when
you use the following commands:

`n' (`next-node')
     Select the `Next' node.

`p' (`prev-node')
     Select the `Prev' node.

`u' (`up-node')
     Select the `Up' node.

You can easily select a node that you have already viewed in this window
by using the `l' command - this name stands for "last", and actually
moves through the list of already visited nodes for this window.  `l'
with a negative numeric argument moves forward through the history of
nodes for this window, so you can quickly step between two adjacent (in
viewing history) nodes.

`l' (`history-node')
     Select the most recently selected node in this window.

Two additional commands make it easy to select the most commonly
selected nodes; they are `t' and `d'.

`t' (`top-node')
     Select the node `Top' in the current Info file.

`d' (`dir-node')
     Select the directory node (i.e., the node `(dir)').

Here are some other commands which immediately result in the selection
of a different node in the current window:

`<' (`first-node')
     Selects the first node which appears in this file.  This node is
     most often `Top', but it does not have to be.

`>' (`last-node')
     Select the last node which appears in this file.

`]' (`global-next-node')
     Move forward or down through node structure.  If the node that you
     are currently viewing has a `Next' pointer, that node is selected.
     Otherwise, if this node has a menu, the first menu item is
     selected.  If there is no `Next' and no menu, the same process is
     tried with the `Up' node of this node.

`[' (`global-prev-node')
     Move backward or up through node structure.  If the node that you
     are currently viewing has a `Prev' pointer, that node is selected.
     Otherwise, if the node has an `Up' pointer, that node is selected,
     and if it has a menu, the last item in the menu is selected.

You can get the same behavior as `global-next-node' and
`global-prev-node' while simply scrolling through the file with <SPC>
and <DEL>; See `scroll-behavior': Variables, for more information.

`g' (`goto-node')
     Read the name of a node and select it.  No completion is done while
     reading the node name, since the desired node may reside in a
     separate file.  The node must be typed exactly as it appears in
     the Info file.  A file name may be included as with any node
     specification, for example

          `g(emacs)Buffers'

     finds the node `Buffers' in the Info file `emacs'.

`C-x k' (`kill-node')
     Kill a node.  The node name is prompted for in the echo area, with
     a default of the current node.  "Killing" a node means that Info
     tries hard to forget about it, removing it from the list of
     history nodes kept for the window where that node is found.
     Another node is selected in the window which contained the killed
     node.

`C-x C-f' (`view-file')
     Read the name of a file and selects the entire file.  The command
          `C-x C-f FILENAME'
     is equivalent to typing
          `g(FILENAME)*'

`C-x C-b' (`list-visited-nodes')
     Make a window containing a menu of all of the currently visited
     nodes.  This window becomes the selected window, and you may use
     the standard Info commands within it.

`C-x b' (`select-visited-node')
     Select a node which has been previously visited in a visible
     window.  This is similar to `C-x C-b' followed by `m', but no
     window is created.