Re: [Bug-tar] Re: tar man page

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Benno Schulenberg <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> !!  How is one supposed to find that?  When searching `info info`

I agree, it is *very* difficult to find.  One has to run `info
info-stnd' to get the description of this. I have got no idea why the
Texinfo authors chose to make this stuff so deeply hidden.

> Why "of course"?  Why must one first learn the default key bindings 
> before being able to change them to something one knows?

Uff, that depends a great deal on what bindings one is used to, doesn't it?
There are people used to vi ones, but there are also those who are used
to emacs (or even to both of them, as the author of these lines is).

> It does not contain a full list of all possible key actions, so one 
> has to guess at the "search-next" and "search-previous" ones, nor 
> does it contain a list of all default bindings, so one can't see 
> what the Space bar is bound to nor how it differs from PageDown.

Agreed, but I'd say this discussion belongs more to bug-texinfo, than
to bug-tar, doesn't it?

> > I don't find anything strange that [down-arrow] stops at the end
> > of a logical unit of text.
> 
> If only it could be configured not to stop.

Ah, I've prepared a patch to info which makes it scroll the whole
texinfo document as a single logical entity (much the way you'd like it
to). Would you mind me inviting you to follow this discussion on
bug-texinfo (where I'm going to post this patch)?

Regards,
Sergey