[quoted lines by Sébastien Hinderer on 2015/01/14 at 10:06 +0100] >Couldn't the help system work exactly like the menu system does? >Because there, it seems to me that all the logic to navigate through a >tree is already present.
It may seem similar, but I don't think it'd work out very well. The menu screen, in many cases, alters the bindings such that easy-to-use keys perform common menu operations. I suspect that doing this to the help screen owuld make navigating it noticeably more difficult. One such override is that the menu screen uses the routing keys for choosing a setting. Using the routing keys for regular cursor routing is, however, IMO useful within the help screen in order to easily mark a reading location to return to later. Since I believe it's a generally useful change, I did go ahead and alter the "go up to previous paragraph" function to go to the first (rather than to the last) line of the previous paragraph. This does indeed make the two functions (go up/down to first line of paragraph) work very well for skipping through the headers within the help screen. Could y'all please give it a try? Also, if anyone thinks that this change is a bad idea, just let me know. It can easily be removed. Do try it first, though. I find myself wishing that it had worked this way from the outset. -- Dave Mielke | 2213 Fox Crescent | The Bible is the very Word of God. Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario | http://Mielke.cc/bible/ EMail: [email protected] | Canada K2A 1H7 | http://FamilyRadio.com/ _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: [email protected] For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
