@TimX provided the answer: use SPC
(or DEL
, for backwards).
In addition, if you use Icicles then you can do the same thing for just the nodes that match your completion input for g
(command Info-goto-node
): Move among those nodes in book order.
By default the node completion candidates are in alphabetical order, which is good for easy recognition, but not usually not ideal for cycling.
But whenever you use a command that accepts your input with completion, Icicles lets you quickly sort the completion candidates in various ways (using C-,
).
And for g
in Info one of the possible sort orders is in book order
. Just use C-,
and choose candidate in book order
to change to this order.
You can also get this behavior without changing the sort order using C-,
, for the particular case where you want to navigate nodes in book order, and limit them to just the nodes in the rest of the book, i.e., those that follow the current node. For this use case, just provide a negative prefix arg: C-- g
. (In this case, the first node candidate is ..
, which means go up to the parent node.)
(To cycle among the nodes that are completion candidates, just use C-down
repeatedly during completion. To visit any particular node out of order during completion, use down
to cycle to it in *Completions*
, then use C-RET
to choose it - or just use C-mouse-2
to choose it in *Completions*
.)