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2.5.3 Other Updating Commands
In addition to the five major updating commands, Texinfo mode possesses several less frequently used updating commands:
- M-x texinfo-insert-node-lines
-
Insert
@node
lines before the@chapter
,@section
, and other sectioning commands wherever they are missing throughout a region in a Texinfo file.With an argument (C-u as prefix argument, if interactive), the command
texinfo-insert-node-lines
not only inserts@node
lines but also inserts the chapter or section titles as the names of the corresponding nodes. In addition, it inserts the titles as node names in pre-existing@node
lines that lack names. Since node names should be more concise than section or chapter titles, you must manually edit node names so inserted.For example, the following marks a whole buffer as a region and inserts
@node
lines and titles throughout:C-x h C-u M-x texinfo-insert-node-lines
This command inserts titles as node names in
@node
lines; thetexinfo-start-menu-description
command (see section Inserting Frequently Used Commands) inserts titles as descriptions in menu entries, a different action. However, in both cases, you need to edit the inserted text. - M-x texinfo-multiple-files-update
-
Update nodes and menus in a document built from several separate files. With C-u as a prefix argument, create and insert a master menu in the outer file. With a numeric prefix argument, such as C-u 2, first update all the menus and all the ‘Next’, ‘Previous’, and ‘Up’ pointers of all the included files before creating and inserting a master menu in the outer file. The
texinfo-multiple-files-update
command is described in the appendix on@include
files. See sectiontexinfo-multiple-files-update
. - M-x texinfo-indent-menu-description
-
Indent every description in the menu following point to the specified column. You can use this command to give yourself more space for descriptions. With an argument (C-u as prefix argument, if interactive), the
texinfo-indent-menu-description
command indents every description in every menu in the region. However, this command does not indent the second and subsequent lines of a multi-line description. - M-x texinfo-sequential-node-update
-
Insert the names of the nodes immediately following and preceding the current node as the ‘Next’ or ‘Previous’ pointers regardless of those nodes’ hierarchical level. This means that the ‘Next’ node of a subsection may well be the next chapter. Sequentially ordered nodes are useful for novels and other documents that you read through sequentially. (However, in Info, the g * command lets you look through the file sequentially, so sequentially ordered nodes are not strictly necessary.) With an argument (prefix argument, if interactive), the
texinfo-sequential-node-update
command sequentially updates all the nodes in the region.
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