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Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior
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Arsen Arsenović |
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Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Jan 2023 21:23:17 +0100 |
Evening Eli,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> That's not true, or at least that's not what I see on my system. The
> Emacs Info reader goes to the next node when it reaches the end of the
> current node. Maybe your Emacs has some customizations? If you see
> the Emacs behavior you describe in "emacs -Q", please describe exactly
> what you do to reproduce the behavior: which manual you load and what
> commands/keys you type after that.
Reproduction steps that work for me:
1. emacs -Q --eval '(info "(info)Top")'
2. M->
3. C-n
The (info)Top node on my system has a next node ("(info)Getting
Started"), which pure ``n'' and (Info-next) take me to, but none of the
in-buffer navigation commands (including <PageUp>/<PageDown>) do.
However, I think this is a good thing. Flipping between pages
accidentally like this can and does confuse folk who are unfamiliar with
how nodes work.
I feel as though the standalone info viewer is one of the most important
things a new GNU user would run into, and something they would run into
quite soon, due to it being referenced in all help2man'd manuals, and as
such, I feel like it's important to get an experience as close as
possible to what the person completely new to GNU would expect.
Thanks, have a wonderful evening.
--
Arsen Arsenović
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- Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/01/06
- Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/06
- Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior,
Arsen Arsenović <=
- Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior, Gavin Smith, 2023/01/06
- Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior, Eli Zaretskii, 2023/01/07
- Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/01/07
- Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior, Gavin Smith, 2023/01/10
- Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior, Arsen Arsenović, 2023/01/11