JezK
Edit File: texinfo_002dmultiple_002dfiles_002dupdate.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>texinfo-multiple-files-update (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="texinfo-multiple-files-update (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="texinfo-multiple-files-update (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Include-Files.html" rel="up" title="Include Files"> <link href="Include-Files-Requirements.html" rel="next" title="Include Files Requirements"> <link href="Using-Include-Files.html" rel="prev" title="Using Include Files"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="section" id="texinfo_002dmultiple_002dfiles_002dupdate"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Include-Files-Requirements.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Include Files Requirements</a>, Previous: <a href="Using-Include-Files.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">How to Use Include Files</a>, Up: <a href="Include-Files.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Include Files</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="texinfo_002dmultiple_002dfiles_002dupdate-1"></span><h3 class="section">17.2 <code>texinfo-multiple-files-update</code></h3> <span id="index-texinfo_002dmultiple_002dfiles_002dupdate"></span> <p>GNU Emacs Texinfo mode provides the <code>texinfo-multiple-files-update</code> command. This command creates or updates ‘Next’, ‘Previous’, and ‘Up’ pointers of included files as well as those in the outer or overall Texinfo file, and it creates or updates a main menu in the outer file. Depending on whether you call it with optional arguments, the command updates only the pointers in the first <code>@node</code> line of the included files or all of them: </p> <dl compact="compact"> <dt><span><kbd>M-x texinfo-multiple-files-update</kbd></span></dt> <dd><p>Called without any arguments: </p> <ul class="no-bullet"> <li>- Create or update the ‘Next’, ‘Previous’, and ‘Up’ pointers of the first <code>@node</code> line in each file included in an outer or overall Texinfo file. </li><li>- Create or update the ‘Top’ level node pointers of the outer or overall file. </li><li>- Create or update a main menu in the outer file. </li></ul> </dd> <dt><span><kbd>C-u M-x texinfo-multiple-files-update</kbd></span></dt> <dd><p>Called with <kbd>C-u</kbd> as a prefix argument: </p> <ul class="no-bullet"> <li>- Create or update pointers in the first <code>@node</code> line in each included file. </li><li>- Create or update the ‘Top’ level node pointers of the outer file. </li><li>- Create and insert a master menu in the outer file. The master menu is made from all the menus in all the included files. </li></ul> </dd> <dt><span><kbd>C-u 8 M-x texinfo-multiple-files-update</kbd></span></dt> <dd><p>Called with a numeric prefix argument, such as <kbd>C-u 8</kbd>: </p> <ul class="no-bullet"> <li>- Create or update <em>all</em> the ‘Next’, ‘Previous’, and ‘Up’ pointers of all the included files. </li><li>- Create or update <em>all</em> the menus of all the included files. </li><li>- Create or update the ‘Top’ level node pointers of the outer or overall file. </li><li>- And then create a master menu in the outer file. This is similar to invoking <code>texinfo-master-menu</code> with an argument when you are working with just one file. </li></ul> </dd> </dl> <p>Note the use of the prefix argument in interactive use: with a regular prefix argument, just <kbd><span class="nolinebreak">C-u</span></kbd><!-- /@w -->, the <code>texinfo-multiple-files-update</code> command inserts a master menu; with a numeric prefix argument, such as <kbd>C-u 8</kbd>, the command updates <em>every</em> pointer and menu in <em>all</em> the files and then inserts a master menu. </p> </div> <hr> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Include-Files-Requirements.html">Include Files Requirements</a>, Previous: <a href="Using-Include-Files.html">How to Use Include Files</a>, Up: <a href="Include-Files.html">Include Files</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> </body> </html>