On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 10:45:05 +0200
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> From: "Eli Zaretskii" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: Re: Bug#78504: info: Impossible to scroll just a single line
>
> > Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 20:33:55 -0700
> > From: Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Hmmm. TAB does work for going through menu items, but there doesn't
> seem
> > to be any way to go backwords through them (shift-TAB, the most obvious
> > method, does nothing.)
>
> Try ESC TAB, it should go to the previous xref or menu item.
>
> > The reason I like man is that it's "simple, straightforward, and
> > intuitive", and this behavior isn't..
>
> That's unfair: `man' doesn't have any cross-references to begin with,
> so it doesn't need to solve these problems.
Yeah, it is a bit harsh. But keep in mind that I'm saying this because I
want info to be perfect so I can completely stop using man :)
>
> But I agree that if there are free keys left that can be used for
> movong between xref's, they should be bound to these commands. It's
> just that Less uses so many keys that it is hard to come up with
> something reasonable.
>
> > hrm, just noticed that 'u' doesn't work either..
>
> That's because `u' has a different (and quite frequently-used)
> function in Less. `n', `p', and `u' are remapped to C-x n, C-x p, and
> C-x u, respectively in the --vi-keys operation.
And I'd like to state that I *just* want to scroll one line at a time, not
emulate Less. Cleary, as all the conflicts with key usage shows, these are
entierly different things.
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