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-scroll-prefer-subnodes default in Emacs. Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:56:19 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200306200119.h5K1Jic11729@eel.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1056171436 6135 80.91.224.249 (21 Jun 2003 04:57:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 04:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 21 06:57:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19TaR9-0001ap-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 06:57:15 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19TaT4-0002V5-00 for ; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 06:59:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19TaQU-0004Q5-OI for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19TaQG-0004P0-OD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:56:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19TaQF-0004OX-I1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19TaQF-0004OK-B3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:56:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19TaQF-0000Cb-0o; Sat, 21 Jun 2003 00:56:19 -0400 Original-To: Luc Teirlinck In-reply-to: <200306200119.h5K1Jic11729@eel.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:19:44 -0500 (CDT)) Original-cc: karl@freefriends.org 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:15177 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15177 The reason SPC has this behavior in Emacs is that it uses the value of point to keep track of its position in the node structure, for moving through the subnodes of a given node. I am a little surprised that SPC can work right without doing that, but apparently it does. Does just setting Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes to nil give entirely the same behavior as in stand-alone info? If so, let's change that default.