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Re: Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes should be nil by default
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes should be nil by default |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:06:04 +0200 |
On 17 Jan 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes should be nil by default, or else how are
> you going to explain the difference in behavior with the standalone
> Info reader?
Emacs's Info reader behaves as the current default for a very long time.
We don't want to change the default, because many users might be used
to it.
I thought we were doing well just by having this option; Emacs 20 didn't
have it at all.
Besides, what makes you think Emacs should explain the difference, and
not the stand-alone reader? IIRC, Emacs was there first: its Info reader
predates the stand-alone Info.
> Once you scroll far enough in a node that its menu appears on the
> screen
> but after point, the next scroll moves into its first subnode, unless
> `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is nil.
>
> By the way
> When you scroll past the end of a node, that goes to the next node if
> `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' is non-nil and to the first subnode
> otherwise;
>
> OK, but are you sure you want to pile all this into the same
> variable's nil/non-nil choice?
Yes, because the variable toggles behavior that's compatible to the
stand-alone Info.