This (the Directory node) gives a menu of major topics.
Typing "d" returns here, "q" exits, "?" lists all INFO commands, "h"
gives a primer for first-timers, "mTexinfo" visits Texinfo topic,
etc.
If you install documentation in /cs/public/generic/info, let Brian
Edmonds know so that it will be added to this
menu.
The list of major topics begins on the next line.
- Info
- Documentation browsing system.
- Emacs
- The extensible self-documenting text editor.
- VIP
- A VI-emulation for Emacs.
- Forms
- Emacs package for editing data bases by filling in forms.
- GNUS
- The news reader GNUS. If you're using XEmacs 19.13 this has been upgraded locally to Gnus 5.0.12.
- CL
- Partial Common Lisp support for Emacs Lisp.
- SC
- Supercite lets you cite parts of messages you're replying to, in hairy ways.
- CPP
- The GNU C preprocessor.
- GCC
- The GNU C, C++ and Objective-C compiler.
- AS
- The GNU assembler.
- GASP
- The GNU assembler preprocessor.
- LD
- The GNU linker.
- Binutils
- The GNU binary manipulation utilities.
- Bison
- The GNU yacc smell-a-like.
- G++ Library
- The GNU g++ library and FAQ. These two
- G++ FAQ
- are installed as part of gcc-2.7.X.
- Gdb
- The GNU symbolic debugger.
- Gdb-Internals
- The GNU debugger's internals.
- Stabs
- The "stabs" debugging information format.
- Make
- The GNU make utility.
- CfEngine
- The GNU system configuration utility.
- Bash
- The GNU Bourne Again SHell.
- Diff
- The GNU file differencing utilities.
- Fileutils
- The GNU file manipulation utilities.
- Shellutils
- The GNU shell programming utilities.
- Sharutils
- The GNU shar and unshar smell-a-likes.
- Remsync
- Remote directory synchronization via email.
- Textutils
- The GNU file content manipulation utilites.
- Texinfo
- The GNU texinfo documentation format.
- Info-stnd
- The GNU standalone info reader.
- Makeinfo
- The GNU standalone texinfo compiler.
- DviPS
- DVI to PS format converter.
- KPathSea
- Path searching library.
- HTML2
- The HTML 2.0 standard.
The following items are available with the xemacs-19.13 package.
- XEmacs
- The extensible self-documenting text editor.This manual is for XEmacs 19.13.
- Lispref
- Emacs-Lisp technical reference.This manual is for XEmacs 19.13.
- New-Users-Guide
- XEmacs User's Guide for XEmacs 19.13.
- XEmacs-FAQ
- XEmacs Frequently Asked Questions for 19.13.
- Ange-FTP
- Making the entire network accessible as a pseudo-filesystem.
- BBDB
- The insidious Big Brother Database (an address book)
- CC-MODE
- Mode for editing C, C++, and Objective-C code.
- CL
- A Common Lisp compatibility package for Emacs-Lisp.
- Dired
- Manual for Tree Dired.
- Ediff
- A Visual Interface to Unix Diff and Patch Utilities.
- EVI
- An alternative vi emulator (see also Viper).
- External-Widget
- Use XEmacs as a text widget inside of another program.
- Forms
- A package for editing databases by filling in forms.
- Hyperbole
- A programmable information management and hypertext system.
- ILISP
- Multi-dialect inferior LISP interface.
- Ispell
- Interactive spelling corrector.
- Mailcrypt
- Emacs interface to cryptographic functions for mail and news.This has been upgraded locally to version 3.4.
- MH-E
- Emacs interface to MH, a mail-handling package.
- OO-Browser
- The Multi-Language Object-Oriented Browser.
- PCL-CVS
- An XEmacs-based front end to CVS.
- Rmail
- An older mail reader for Emacs.
- Standards
- The GNU coding standards.
- Supercite
- Lets you cite parts of messages you're replying to.
- Term
- ANSI-compatible terminal emulator.
- Termcap
- The termcap library, which enables application programsto handle all types of character-display terminals.
- Texinfo
- With one source file, make either a printed manual (throughTeX) or an Info file (through texinfo).
- Viper
- A VI Plan for Emacs Rescue and a venomous VI PERil.
- VM
- View Mail, a replacement for Rmail.
- W3
- A browser for the World Wide Web global hypertext system.
The following items are installed in cspublic, and are not supported
by the department technical staff at this time.
- Autoconf
- The GNU source self-configuration package.
- Indent
- The GNU source indentation utility.
- M4
- The GNU macro preprocessor.