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


From: Yuri Khan
Subject: Re: Pressing ? does not allow window scrolling through the list of info commands
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2023 03:11:39 +0700

On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 at 02:40, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > > And how will we tell the user that 'q' quits?  In the echo-area,
> > > perhaps?
> >
> > Echo area, or header line, or mode line, whatever.
>
> Which is what we do now about SPC, and that is deemed not good enough.
> How is showing 'q' there suddenly better?

I cannot answer this because you’ve disagreed with the point that
explains it. (Namely, that users expect to be able to read without
having to be told about how to read, and do not expect the help
disappearing when they try to read it.)



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