From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Shannon Jones <zedzap@gmail.com>
Cc: 3454@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3454: <SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:06:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtz2wnfyd.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9fbd0ee10906031115k39dc138ej57ebc2972fdc964b@mail.gmail.com> (Shannon Jones's message of "Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:15:47 -0500")
>> This is not a bug: SPC does _not_ necessarily go to the Next node;
>> instead, it traverses the nodes as a tree: if there is a menu in the
>> current node, it takes you to the first menu item of that menu.
> Thanks for the quick response :-)
> I see what my problem was now. Each item listed in the Index is a
> subnode of the Index. So pressing <SPC> at the bottom of the Index
> page will take me to the first item listed in the Index. I was
> expecting it to take me to the Next node in the manual, since I didn't
> realize that the index entries were considered subnodes.
Actually I think that SPC's behavior in index nodes is wrong.
Basically, SPC currently presumes that info nodes linked by menus form
a tree, and it is mostly true, but not for index menus.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-06-03 5:40 ` bug#3454: <SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node Shannon Jones
2009-06-03 15:45 ` bug#3454: marked as done (<SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node) Emacs bug Tracking System
2009-06-03 23:41 ` Johan =?UTF-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd
2009-06-03 18:15 ` bug#3454: <SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node Shannon Jones
2009-06-04 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-06-04 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-06-04 18:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-08 18:26 ` bug#3454: <SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to thewrong node Drew Adams
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