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> What I am looking for is some man-readable documentation for GCC 2.5.8.

The Info files are almost plain ASCII, so you can always peek portions
of it with any reasonable editor and put them into your file.  (Emacs
can surely do this, but from your posting I get a faint feeling you
don't like uGNUsable editors ;-)  Look in the gcc.info-* files for
a chapter called ``Invoking GCC'', and copy out its sub-chapters.
The man page distributed with GCC is just an abridged version of this
chapter.

> Alternatively, I guess I would also be happy to have a version of the
> Info reader which does not require me to learn yet another uGNUsable
> interface.  If Info is as customizable as emacs, perhaps someone has
> produced a configuration file with some more intuitive key bindings?
> Anything like that would help.

At least the Stand-alone GNU Info reader doesn't require you to learn
anything except the `?' command, which show you the list of available
commands.  Other than that, you just use the SPACE bar to browse through
the file, just like in more(1); when you press SPACE at the end of a node,
you get to the next one.  And `q' gets you out of Info, like in more(1).

If you don't have Info already, you can find it on one of the gnu ftp
sites, it's part of Texinfo distribution.