On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
This is a feature.
> so C-x 0 does not work, despite the misleading (in this
> context) message.
Where did you see this message? I don't see it in the version of Info
from Texinfo 4.0.
> 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.
Presumably because xterm somehow doesn't report the window size
correctly. Results from stepping through the initialization code with
a debugger are greatly appreciated. (But I'd suggest to try Texinfo
4.0 first, in case this is already solved there.)
> info --version:
> info (GNU texinfo) 3.12h
>
> (by the way, 3.12f also behaves this way.)
We got as far as 3.12r or 3.12s before 4.0 was released ;-).
