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Customizing Key Bindings and Variables
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   For those whose editor/pager of choice is not Emacs and who are not
entirely satisfied with the -vi-keys option (Note: --vi-keys), GNU
Info provides a way to define different key-to-command bindings and
variable settings from the defaults described in this document.

   On startup, GNU Info looks for a configuration file in the invoker's
HOME directory called `.info'(1).  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

   ---------- Footnotes ----------

   (1) 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.