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bug#24825: [help-texinfo] "help" content
From: |
Gavin Smith |
Subject: |
bug#24825: [help-texinfo] "help" content |
Date: |
Sun, 30 Oct 2016 17:00:37 +0000 |
On 30 October 2016 at 16:30, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> There's a problem here: the '?' key still does in Emacs what the
> manual says it should. So this is a discrepancy between the Emacs
> Info reader and the stand-alone Info reader, and I'm not sure Emacs
> should be the one which changes.
I was asking for the documentation to be changed to mention that you
can press H in the stand-alone info reader, not for what emacs does to
be changed.
> Why was '?' in the stand-alone reader bound to search-backward? It
> makes little sense to me, at least when in the default Emacs mode. (I
> notice that '?' has the same binding in the vi mode, perhaps someone
> wanted to have the cake and eat it, too?)
Because "H" is available for the help window and ? searches back in
both vi and less, and users may be used to using the latter to read
man pages and using / and ? to search through a manual. / also
searches forward so it is consistent for ? to search backward.