From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Texinfo 3.12 ported to DJGPP
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 07:33:39 +0200
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> The behavior of `l' was changed.  Whether this change is a solution of
> the problem or part thereof, is open to dispute ;-).  The GNU
> maintainer thinks the new behavior goes a long way towards solving the
> problem.  I dare to disagree; but then I wasn't particularly mad about
> the previous way this feature worked, either.  Your mileage may vary;
> give it a try and see for yourself.

It's better than it was (it's at least more intuitive to me), but it's
still annoying that it doesn't save te cursor position, so you have to
reselect the node (if it's something like the gcc reference there are a
/lot/ of links to search).  However, the "make a window containing links
to everywhere you've been) function helps, even if it is one of those
emacs-type ^X ones I can never remember.

One oddity - backspace for going back up a page doesn't work unless you
do CTRL-BS, if you just do BS then it opens another window.  Something
in the terminfo, possibly?

> (Btw, the official release of Texinfo 3.12 has a few bugs in how `l'
> works, which are corrected in the DJGPP port, so if you decide to try
> this out, use the DJGPP sources, even if you do that on Unix.)

I assume that these have been reported to the developers will be
incorporated in a future release?  Thanks for the tip, anyway.

Chris C