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19.1.8 Man Pages and Info Pages
For some GNU applications (such as tar), the man pages are no longer maintained. For
these commands, use the --help option to get a quick overview of the info pages,
which provide more in-depth instructions. info is GNU's hypertext system. Read an
introduction to this system by entering info info. Info pages can be viewed with
Emacs by entering emacs -f info or directly in a console with info. You can
also use tkinfo, xinfo, or the help system to view info pages.
19.1.9 Settings for GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs is a complex work environment. The following sections cover the confi-
guration files processed when GNU Emacs is started. More information is available at
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/.
On start-up, Emacs reads several files containing the settings of the user, system admin-
istrator, and distributor for customization or preconfiguration. The initialization file ~/
.emacs is installed to the home directories of the individual users from /etc/skel.
.emacs, in turn, reads the file /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs. To customize the program,
copy .gnu-emacs to the home directory (with cp /etc/skel/.gnu-emacs
~/.gnu-emacs) and make the desired settings there.
.gnu-emacs defines the file ~/.gnu-emacs-custom as custom-file. If users
make settings with the customize options in Emacs, the settings are saved to ~/
.gnu-emacs-custom.
With SUSE® Linux Enterprise, the emacs package installs the file site-start.el
in the directory /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp. The file site-start.el is
loaded before the initialization file ~/.emacs. Among other things, site-start
.el ensures that special configuration files distributed with Emacs add-on packages,
such as psgml, are loaded automatically. Configuration files of this type are located
in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp, too, and always begin with suse-start-.
The local system administrator can specify systemwide settings in default.el.
More information about these files is available in the Emacs info file under Init File:
info:/emacs/InitFile. Information about how to disable loading these files (if
necessary) is also provided at this location.
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