texinfo: Updating Nodes and Menus

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2.5 Updating Nodes and Menus
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Texinfo mode provides commands for automatically creating or updating
menus and node pointers.  The commands are called "update" commands
because their most frequent use is for updating a Texinfo file after you
have worked on it; but you can use them to insert the 'Next',
'Previous', and 'Up' pointers into an '@node' line that has none and to
create menus in a file that has none.

  If you do not use any updating commands, you need to write menus and
node pointers by hand, which is a tedious task.

Updating Commands

Five major updating commands.

Updating Requirements

How to structure a Texinfo file for using the updating command.

Other Updating Commands

How to indent descriptions, insert missing nodes lines, and update nodes in sequence.