GNU Info provides a way to define arbitrary key-to-command bindings and variable settings, overriding the defaults described in this document. (The --vi-keys option rebinds many keys at once; see --vi-keys.)
On startup, GNU Info looks for a configuration file in the invoker’s
HOME directory called .info. (Due to the limitations of DOS
filesystems, the MS-DOS version of Info looks for a file _info
instead. If the HOME variable is not defined, Info additionally
looks in the current directory.) If it is present, and appears to
contain Info configuration data, and was created with the current
version of the infokey command, then Info adopts the key
bindings and variable settings contained therein.
The .info file contains compact, non-textual data for reasons of
efficiency and because its design was lifted wholesale from the GNU Less
program, which also does it that way. It must be created by compiling a
textual source file using the infokey command.
| • Invoking infokey: | ||
| • infokey source format: |