From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Colin Baxter 😺" <m43cap@yandex.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: terminal scrolling in help
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:58:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ilvsmzjg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y24pj6nd.fsf@yandex.com> (message from Colin Baxter 😺 on Mon, 13 Dec 2021 07:39:02 +0000)
> 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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-13 12:58 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 [this message]
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
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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