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You are talking to the program Info, for reading documentation.
There are two ways to use Info: from within Emacs or as a stand-alone reader that you can invoke from a shell using the command info.
Right now you are looking at one Node of Information. A node contains text describing a specific topic at a specific level of detail. This node's topic is “how to use Info”. The mode line says that this is node `Help' in the file info.
The top line of a node is its header. This node's header (look at it now) says that the `Next' node after this one is the node called `Help-P'. An advanced Info command lets you go to any node whose name you know. In the stand-alone Info reader program, the header line shows the names of this node and the info file as well. In Emacs, the header line is duplicated in a special typeface, and the duplicate remains at the top of the window all the time even if you scroll through the node.
Besides a `Next', a node can have a `Previous' link, or an `Up' link, or both. As you can see, this node has all of these links.
Now it is time to move on to the `Next' node, named `Help-P'.
>> Type n to move there. Type just one character; do not type the quotes and do not type a <RET> afterward.
`>>' in the margin means it is really time to try a command.
>> If you are in Emacs and have a mouse, and if you already practiced
typing n to get to the next node, click now with the middle
mouse button on the `Next' link to do the same “the mouse way”.