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Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior


From: Arsen Arsenović
Subject: Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:46:04 +0100

Hi,

Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> writes:

> People complain that they can't read through an Info manual by
> pressing the up and down arrow keys like they can with Less, but at
> least holding the down key will eventually bring them to a new node,
> even though this is a suboptimal way to load the next node.  How can
> we know that stopping the cursor at the bottom of the node will help
> new users, and won't lead to more users getting stuck and giving up
> because they can't work out how to get the next node?

Hm, yes, fair enough; consider me persuaded :).  I can't really make any
less than anecdotal statements about usability without getting a bunch
of people to try something, so I think we should just sync up the two
viewers again and consider this resolved.

Thanks, have a wonderful evening.
-- 
Arsen Arsenović

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