From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: info Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:17:39 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200301290133.TAA05169@eel.dms.auburn.edu> <200301290353.VAA05277@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043875094 12359 80.91.224.249 (29 Jan 2003 21:18:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:18:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18dzb2-0003DB-00 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:18:12 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18dzgN-0002Aa-00 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 22:23:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dzc5-0007o3-08 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:19:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dzbl-0007lv-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:18:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dzaw-0007Wq-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:18:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18dzaW-0006vV-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18dzaV-0006fq-00; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:17:39 -0500 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200301290353.VAA05277@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:53:27 -0600 (CST)) Original-cc: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11200 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11200 Redefine RETURN in Info-mode to be just a shortcut for "m RETURN". In other words, the only difference between RETURN and m would be that if m has an interactive default, then RETURN accepts it without querying. It used to be that typing RET on the Next, Previous and Up pointers worked too, but that is no longer possible because those pointers are now in the header line. So the only things RET can do now are m and f. If you're suggesting that we turn of the f functionality, I think that is a bad idea. But if you're suggesting that we make RET get an error when it is not in the menu or on a cross-reference, I think that is a good idea. Please write the code for that if you would like to. If it is impossible to figure out which node the user really wants, then, rather than info making a completely wild guess, as it currently does, the user would be alerted to that fact with Menu item: appearing in the echo area. That is definitely a bad idea, as Eli explained.