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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Christoph Scholtes <cschol2112@googlemail.com>, 8327@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#8327: 24.0.50; Info mode manual: headline of section 1.4 is confusing
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 21:14:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ei1sisjj.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <834o6uv5oi.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:09:33 +0200")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Shouldn't it be 
>> 
>> @section The Space, DEL, b and C-l commands
>> 
>> to match the actual commands referred to in the text?
>
> Not sure.  This manual is used for the stand-alone Info, whose users
> might not know what C-l is.

There's a bunch of other C-<key> things in the manual.  For instance,
that very node says:

---
@kindex C-l @r{(Info mode)}
  If your screen is ever garbaged, you can tell Info to display it
again by typing @kbd{C-l} (@kbd{Control-L}---that is, hold down
@key{CTRL} and type @kbd{L} or @kbd{l}).
---

However, it's a very meta node, which starts off with:

---
@node Help-^L, Help-Inv, Help-P, Getting Started
@comment  node-name,  next,  previous,  up
@section The Space, DEL, B and ^L commands

  This node's mode line tells you that you are now at node
@samp{Help-^L}, and the header line tells you that @kbd{p} would get
you back to @samp{Help-P}.  The node's title is highlighted and may be
underlined as well; it says what the node is about.
---

What on earth is "Help-^L" meant to signify?  I have no idea.  The
author probably knows.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-14 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-23  0:51 bug#8327: 24.0.50; Info mode manual: headline of section 1.4 is confusing Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-23  4:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 19:14   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-07-14 19:34     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-14 20:21       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-15  6:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-11  3:49           ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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