From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>, "Colin Baxter 😺" <m43cap@yandex.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: terminal scrolling in help
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 05:49:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmnnx=5EmEmQ+tGa2_Hu-zw3X0dSPuv4KvXrQmRygEXyGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ilvsmzjg.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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?
Because those are more natural keys to use on graphical displays.
> How about providing a patch that adds SPC and DEL to the advice?
Can we detect that we are running in a terminal and show SPC and DEL
there, while showing <PageDown> and <PageUp> on graphical displays?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-13 13:49 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 [this message]
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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