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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2021 12:47:56 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,
>  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> 
> >>>> Perhaps the easiest fix would be to handle Delete same as Backspace 
> >>>> here.
> >>>
> >>> Yes, that could alleviate the problem in this particular case.
> >>
> >> Please don't, that would be a horribly wrong change.
> >
> > I have described an obvious problem: Emacs says press DEL to scroll, the 
> > user presses Del on their keyboard, and Emacs exits instead.
> >
> > All that in a Help interface, which is supposed to help newbies. Not 
> > grizzled veterans.
> >
> > It's a real problem, if you want people to actually use this feature.
> 
> What about adding (define-key map [delete] 'scroll-down-command) to 
> help-map?

Isn't that what Dmitry suggested above?

Btw, make-help-screen already seems to recognize the <Delete> key, so
why isn't that already supported?