Custom Key Bindings (Stand-alone GNU Info 7.2)

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15 Customizing Key Bindings and Variables ¶

Info allows you to override the default key-to-command bindings and variable settings described in this document. On startup, GNU Info looks for a configuration file:

First, Info checks ~/.infokey, where ~ refers to the user’s HOME directory.³
If the file is not present at this location, Info then checks for $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/texinfo/infokey. The default value of $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is ~/.config, so usually the file will be at ~/.config/texinfo/infokey.
Info then checks for sysconfdir/xdg/texinfo/infokey, where sysconfdir is was set when Info was built, usually to ‘/etc/’ or ‘/usr/local/etc’.
Finally, Info checks through $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS which is a colon-separated list of directory names, for a file named texinfo/infokey.

This search order is compatible with the XDG Base Directory Specification although doesn’t follow it in every detail.

To use an alternative configuration file, use the --init-file option (see --init-file).

If an infokey file is found, then Info adopts the key bindings and variable settings contained therein.

Variables may also be set on the command line with the --variable option (see variable-assignment). Variable settings on the command line override settings from the infokey file.

(The --vi-keys option rebinds many keys at once; see --vi-keys.)

infokey format

Footnotes

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Due to the limitations of DOS filesystems, the MS-DOS version of Info looks for a file _infokey instead. If the HOME variable is not defined, Info additionally looks in the current directory.