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The highlighting commands can be used to extract useful information from the file, such as lists of functions or file names. It is possible, for example, to write a program in Emacs Lisp (or a keyboard macro) to insert an index entry after every paragraph that contains words or phrases marked by a specified command. You could do this to construct an index of functions if you had not already made the entries.
The commands serve a variety of purposes:
@code{sample-code}@code.
@kbd{keyboard-characters}@kbd.
@key{key-name}@key.
@samp{text}@samp.
@verb{text}@verb.
@var{metasyntactic-variable}@var.
@env{environment-variable}@kenv.
@file{file-name}@file.
@command{command-name}@command.
@option{option}@option.
@dfn{term}@dfn.
@cite{reference}@cite.
@abbr{abbreviation}@acronym{acronym}@acronym.
@indicateurl{uniform-resource-locator}@indicateurl. (Use @url
(see @url) for live url's.)
@email{email-address[, displayed-text]}@email.