TKINFO(1)

💖 TKINFO(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, welcome to tkinfo, live from the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix box. this is a whole program, and she's here to show you GNU Info files in a real graphical window. slay. let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

tkinfo — a program to view GNU Info files 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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 ]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, tkinfo is a graphical browser for documentation written in the GNU Info hypertext format. that's it, that's the whole vibe. she renders your info files in a window with buttons and links and everything. main character energy fr fr 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --help — prints out a short lil help message. a snack, not a meal 🍓
• -headers / +headers — turns the display of the raw info node headers on/off, right there in the first line of the window. default is on ✨
• -buttons / +buttons — turns the button row on/off. default is on 🔘
• -balloons / +balloons — turns balloonhelp on/off for those buttons (yes, the little hover bubbles, adorable). default is on 🎈
• -scrollthrough / +scrollthrough — turns on/off the thing where, if you try to scroll past the bottom of a node, she just jumps you to the successor node. default is on 🌀
• -pagesep / +pagesep — turns on/off inserting page separators when you're scrolling page-wise. default is on 📄
• -showdir / +showdir — turns on/off showing the full pathname of the info file currently on screen. default is off (she's mysterious like that) 🙈
• -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 — the 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 — the X display to use for the tkinfo window 🖥️
• -iconic — start the first window in iconic state. she's shy, she's minimized, she's still iconic tho 💅
• -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. so she's got priorities, and honestly? valid 👑
• 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. lowercase bestie rights 💜

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 🏠

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• 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. compressed files? she handles it. no cap 🗜️✨

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💫 SEE ALSO 💫

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/ 🌐

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

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>. legends, both of them 🫶

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and that's the whole page bestie!! the header up top said TKINFO(1) in the General Commands Manual, and the footer was just... TKINFO(1) again. that's it. she said the same thing twice and honestly? iconic. periodt 💅✨🌸