Function: Info-prev

Info-prev is an interactive and byte-compiled function defined in info.el.gz.

Signature

(Info-prev)

Documentation

Go to the "previous" node, staying on the same hierarchical level.

This command doesn't go up to the parent node, like [ (Info-backward-node) does.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/info.el.gz
(defun Info-prev ()
  "Go to the \"previous\" node, staying on the same hierarchical level.
This command doesn't go up to the parent node, like \\<Info-mode-map>\\[Info-backward-node] does."
  (interactive nil Info-mode)
  ;; In case another window is currently selected
  (save-window-excursion
    (or (derived-mode-p 'Info-mode) (switch-to-buffer "*info*"))
    (Info-goto-node (Info-extract-pointer "prev[ious]*" "previous"))))