From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 9528@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9528: 24.0.50; Info navigation
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:14:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0gbTQKT4AFHPLGUNA-cX7HZ5t=oRf3xM28ZtceiEUyDfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1R5bxH-00057X-E3@fencepost.gnu.org>
>> > It's not the implementation, it's part of documented behavior of DEL:
>> >
>> > Scroll one screenful back in Info, considering all nodes as one
>> > sequence ----------------------------
>> > --------
>>
>> As I see it, considering all nodes as one sequence, the node just
>> before "Macros" is "Related Topics", not "Functions".
>
> Not in depth-first-search order, it isn't.
In that order maybe not, but I think the intended order is not that,
but "sequential", as described in (info "(info)Help-^L"):
> <SPC> and <DEL> not only move forward and backward through the
> current node. They also move between nodes. <SPC> at the end of a
> node moves to the next node; <DEL> (or <BACKSPACE>) at the beginning of
> a node moves to the previous node. In effect, these commands scroll
> through all the nodes in an Info file as a single logical sequence.
> You can read an entire manual top to bottom by just typing <SPC>, and
> move backward through the entire manual from bottom to top by typing
> <DEL> (or <BACKSPACE>).
>
> In this sequence, a node's subnodes appear following their parent.
> If a node has a menu, <SPC> takes you into the subnodes listed in the
> menu, one by one. Once you reach the end of a node, and have seen all
> of its subnodes, <SPC> takes you to the next node or to the parent's
> next node.
According to that sequential order, as I said, the previous node of
"Macros" is "Retated Topics", not "Functions".
--
Dani Moncayo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-17 10:54 bug#9528: 24.0.50; Info navigation Dani Moncayo
2011-09-17 11:01 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-17 18:02 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-17 18:00 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-18 20:14 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-19 8:14 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-19 9:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 10:20 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-19 10:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 10:49 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-19 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 12:14 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2011-09-19 12:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 13:04 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-19 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-19 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-19 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 18:49 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-19 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-20 16:30 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-20 17:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-20 17:50 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-20 19:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-20 20:17 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-19 11:16 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-19 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-19 12:45 ` Dani Moncayo
2011-09-19 14:23 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-19 16:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-20 16:28 ` Juri Linkov
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