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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: m43cap@yandex.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: terminal scrolling in help
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 20:16:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v8zsl69k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmnM7ztX=G3jVy49w6cPT1y1PKcpm89OPMhck_DVdG4ZbQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:12:34 -0800)

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 10:12:34 -0800
> Cc: m43cap@yandex.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Can we detect that we are running in a terminal and show SPC and DEL
> >> there, while showing <PageDown> and <PageUp> on graphical displays?
> >
> > We can, but why?  PageUp/PageDown are available on some terminals as
> > well, and SPC/DEL are available on GUI displays.
> 
> It seems suboptimal to print PageUp/PageDown if they won't work.

I don't think we can know whether they do work on a given terminal.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-13 18:16 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 [this message]
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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