From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 24825@debbugs.gnu.org, madhou <madh2001@gmail.com>,
"help-texinfo@gnu.org" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
Subject: bug#24825: [help-texinfo] "help" content
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:00:37 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKPWYQ0jQa2vX71TTarvbco7k9QCSXE_eQ4NjB14qgUSXNQ59A__38960.4924283505$1477846901$gmane$org@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83shrdpzni.fsf@gnu.org>
On 30 October 2016 at 16:30, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> There's a problem here: the '?' key still does in Emacs what the
> manual says it should. So this is a discrepancy between the Emacs
> Info reader and the stand-alone Info reader, and I'm not sure Emacs
> should be the one which changes.
I was asking for the documentation to be changed to mention that you
can press H in the stand-alone info reader, not for what emacs does to
be changed.
> Why was '?' in the stand-alone reader bound to search-backward? It
> makes little sense to me, at least when in the default Emacs mode. (I
> notice that '?' has the same binding in the vi mode, perhaps someone
> wanted to have the cake and eat it, too?)
Because "H" is available for the help window and ? searches back in
both vi and less, and users may be used to using the latter to read
man pages and using / and ? to search through a manual. / also
searches forward so it is consistent for ? to search backward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-30 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20161017182623.GC2852@bhayya.baalamithra>
2016-10-30 8:08 ` "help" content Gavin Smith
2016-10-30 16:30 ` bug#24825: [help-texinfo] " Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <83shrdpzni.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-10-30 17:00 ` Gavin Smith [this message]
[not found] ` <CAKPWYQ0jQa2vX71TTarvbco7k9QCSXE_eQ4NjB14qgUSXNQ59A@mail.gmail.com>
2016-10-30 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <83r36xpxzr.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-10-30 17:12 ` Gavin Smith
[not found] ` <CAKPWYQ2VPAEFuDsk=qyA+BO75RZD0OHAjCeFHN=-jLKedYPocg@mail.gmail.com>
2016-11-04 8:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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