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24.0.50; Info mode manual: headline of section 1.4 is confusing

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com, 8327 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8327: 24.0.50; Info mode manual: headline of section 1.4 is confusing
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:21:43 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
>> Cc: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com>,  8327 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:14:08 +0200
>> 
>> What on earth is "Help-^L" meant to signify?  I have no idea.  The
>> author probably knows.
>
> So will you, if you try reading that manual in an Info reader.  When
> you get to this node, you'll understand why its name is this and no
> other.

Sorry; I still have no idea.

I mean, I know that ^L refers to C-l.  But I still have no idea why the
node is called Help-^L, and not Help-Com or whatever.

All the info nodes in that section have pretty inscrutable node names.
"Help-Inv", "Help-Int".

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