Re: Proposal for an improved `help-for-help'

[Stefan Kangas]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

>> Is that a common convention?  I'm testing man and less in xterm, and
>> they don't scroll up on Shift+Space.
>
> Perhaps not ubiquitous.
>
> I thought it worked in 'less', but apparently misremembered. Neigher
> backspace nor delete do anything in 'less' either, so it's probably not
> the best comparison.
>
> Works in Firefox and Thunderbird, though.
>
> But PgUp/PgDown work in less too, so supporting them should be higher
> priority.

We also have in `special-mode-map':

DEL             scroll-down-command
S-SPC           scroll-down-command

So I think it makes sense to add it to help-for-help as well.