Re: Pressing ? does not allow window scrolling through the list of info commands

[Yuri Khan]

On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 at 02:06, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > ‘help-mode-map’ has ‘q’ bound to ‘quit-window’ and that’s the minimal
> > fuss way to return from the help window. It also would help build
> > habits that work with a wide set of buffers in Emacs.
>
> And how will we tell the user that 'q' quits?  In the echo-area,
> perhaps?

Echo area, or header line, or mode line, whatever.

> > As it is, the user has to build three sets of habits […]
>
> You exaggerate the problem.  A typical user of computers these days
> needs much more than 3 sets of habits for similar actions.  And
> scrolling with SPC in Emacs is quite a widely-used paradigm.

Users who know about scrolling with Space also expect Shift+Space to
scroll in reverse. Users also *really* expect to be able to scroll by
single lines. Help that hides as soon as you try to scroll it is not
very helpful.