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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: m43cap@yandex.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: terminal scrolling in help
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:52:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6h4mx1m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ilvsmzjg.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:58:59 +0200)

> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:58:59 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > From: Colin Baxter 😺 <m43cap@yandex.com>
> > Cc: 
> > Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 07:39:02 +0000
> > 
> > 1. emacs-27.2 -nw -Q <RET>
> > 2. C-h ?
> > 
> > The user is then told to use Space or Del to scroll options. This works
> > in xterm, stterm and urxvt.
> > 
> > In emacs-28.0.90 (and emacs-29.0.50) the user is now told to use
> > <PageDown>, <PageUp> to scroll, neither of which work in xterm,
> > stterm or urxvt
> > 
> > I am wondering why the scroll advice was changed?
> 
> How about providing a patch that adds SPC and DEL to the advice?

I installed a fix on the release branch, please test.

Thanks.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-12-13 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-13  7:39 terminal scrolling in help Colin Baxter 😺
2021-12-13 12:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-13 13:49   ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-13 14:27     ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-12-13 14:49       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-13 15:10     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-13 18:12       ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-13 18:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-13 21:26     ` James Cloos
2021-12-13 13:52   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-12-13 16:24     ` Colin Baxter 😺
2021-12-13 17:00 ` Yuri Khan
2021-12-13 17:34   ` Colin Baxter 😺
2021-12-13 17:50     ` Yuri Khan
2021-12-13 19:05       ` Colin Baxter 😺
2021-12-13 19:23         ` Yuri Khan
2021-12-13 20:22           ` Colin Baxter 😺
2021-12-13 20:27           ` Andreas Schwab
2021-12-13 17:08 ` Andreas Schwab

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