From:	mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Info's interface
Date:	22 Oct 1997 11:55:33 GMT
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997 15:48:38 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Eli Zaretskii
(eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote: 

: No, the problem seems to be that when you press "l", the last page that
: you were visiting is not popped off the history list.  I don't know
: whether this is a bug or a mis-feature (the Info reader built into Emacs
: doesn't behave like that, so I guess it's a bug). 

Is it being fixed? If so, what sort of timescale is there? If not, or if
the timescale is long, I'll do my own...

In fact, the version of Info on my Unix shell has this misfeature, which
indicates that it's not a bug. :(

: > Any workaround?

: If you want to return to the higher level, use "u" (UP).  Otherwise, no 
: work-around.

That's not very useful, though, because the info docs are indexed with U
going to the alphavetical list. BTW, is this viewed as a good system? I
personally would much prefer the U key to go to the appropriate functional
category, provided they do not overlap (as they shouldn't).

: > And is there a forward command just like the back (i.e. last page) 
: > command?

: The forward direction is not defined well.  Do you mean forward along the 
: history ring?  If so, AFAIK, there isn't such a command (and it isn't 
: supposed to be, since history should be a stack, not a ring).  If by 
: forward you mean to do a depth-first traversal of the node tree, then 
: SPACE is your key.

Or N to skip the rest of the current page first...

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Regards,

george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk

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