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


From: uzibalqa
Subject: Re: Pressing ? does not allow window scrolling through the list of info commands
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:19:57 +0000

------- Original Message -------
On Saturday, July 8th, 2023 at 8:11 AM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:


> 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.)

That had been my experience and I hated it.  I never wanted the help
to disappear as soon as I try to display it and read it.



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