On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Jay Maynard wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:03:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >Hitting 'C-h' in info should give you 2 frames: 1 that still has regular
> >> > info in it, and one that has the help in it.
> >> On my system (a RedHat 6.0 vanilla install, Info version 3.12),
> >> hitting 'C-h' brings up a single, complete help window for which 'C-x
> >> 0' is clearly not allowed. Perhaps this is a version issue?
> >[llewelly@198 llewelly]$ info --version
> >info (GNU texinfo) 3.12f
>
> Same version I get.
>
> I think this is related to the number of lines on the screen: I just tried
> it in a 60-line xterm and got a split window, in which ^x0 did what it
> claims to. When I tried it before, it was on a console tty session, of 24
> lines. Sounds like it's deciding that the screen is too small to use
> multiple windows on, and so just going ahead and replacing the current
> window instead.
I hadn't ever noticed that behavior before, but you are correct.
I just tried info in several xterms with different heights. It appears
that if the height of the xterm is <= 32 lines, it gives the help in a
single window, so C-x 0 does not work, despite the misleading (in this
context) message. However, I was always able to get back to the previous
node (out of help) using 'l'.
Interestingly, on my 80x24 console tty, pressing C-h in info doesn't bring
up the normal help; it jumps to Help-small-screen in the tutorial, which
gives some interesting hints for small screens. (You can see this on a
big term by running 'info info' and then 'gHelp-Small-Screen' (it will
tab-complete for you.)) What I can't figure out, is why it does this on
an 80x24 console, and not on an 80x24 xterm, I don't know.
I am ccing this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (I can't figure out who else to
pester about info bugs ), in hopes of fixes/advice, so here is my
platform info:
info --version:
info (GNU texinfo) 3.12h
(by the way, 3.12f also behaves this way.)
platform:
i686-pc-linux-gnu, originally redhat linux 6.1
