Karl Berry wrote: > [...] the addition of "[*] Command acts [...] > > Overkill, agreed. Removed.
Then also the trailing " [*]" in the explanation of Tab can go. The order of the command keys after "Return" isn't very logical. After RET should follow first its opposite: "last". And then "up", "top", and "dir". The addition of "Equivalent to..." in two of the axplanations doesn't seem very useful. So I propose the following order and texts: RET Follow the hypertext link under the cursor (Enter). l Go back to the last node seen in this window. u Go up one level. t Go to the top node of this document. d Go to the main `directory' node. > Or leave M-TAB out altogether, > > I like that :). Removed. On second thought, this is maybe not such a good idea. It might be better to assign it by default a plain key -- maybe "A", for "Aft". In my .infokey file I have the following lines: x delete-window c keep-one-window v split-window Having at least the "x" bound by default to delete-window would be nice. Then it becomes relatively easy to close the help window again, without having to wait for the reassignment of a second "h". Instead of saying "Quit this help" it is probably better to describe the closing command as "Close this help window", reserving the word "quit" to describe only "q". On a 33-line 80-column Konsole, typing "h" shows a 14-line help window, of which 6 lines are used for whitespace, dashes, and unneeded texts. So I propose to remove the lines of stars and dashes, leave out the headers of the little subsections (the grouping through blank lines alone says enough), and let the first line say "Basic 'info' command keys". So the first 14 lines of a help window would look like this: Basic 'info' command keys x Close this help window. q Quit 'info' altogether. H Invoke the Info tutorial. ] Go to the next node in this document. [ Go to the previous node in this document. TAB Skip to the next hypertext link. a Skip to the previous hypertext link. RET Follow the hypertext link under the cursor (Enter). l Go back to the last node seen in this window. u Go up one level. t Go to the top node of this document. The search-backward command really deserves a default key binding. To see it listed as "M-x search-backward" in a list of basic info commands, only accessible via a long M-x command, is... absurd. Maybe the "z" key is an option -- for its location opposite to "/" on the keyboard. At the very bottom of the help window it says: --- Use `l' or `C-x k' to exit --- But that is really not what the user wants. Also, when scrolling down through the help text, it should stop at the bottom, fully stop -- and not beep, say "No more nodes within this document", and go back to the top. Benno
