Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 17:48:38 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Chirayu Krishnappa <chirayu AT radiolink DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Info's interface
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On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Chirayu Krishnappa wrote:

> I'll describe my a situation to show a problem I face. I goto a certain
> page, say the conio functions index. I read the docs for one of the
> functions, then press "l" to goto the last page. Now I read the docs for
> another function. This time, I have to press "l" _twice_ and later thrice
> and so on. (i.e when I goto the "last page", its not logged as a fresh
> page).

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). 

> Any workaround?

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

> 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.