Hi Eli, * Eli Zaretskii wrote on Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 09:30:43PM CET: > > Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:15:37 +0100 > > From: Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> > > > > `info info' tells me that I can put a brick on SPACE in order to speed > > through a whole manual, front to back, in the info browser. > > This is only true if the node structure in a manual is a tree. Most > manuals are like this, but that's not necessary.
Ah, that's one bit of information I was missing. I suggest the doc patch below. > > I tried > > that with the texinfo manual itself. It gets stuck in the middle, > > jumping from `12.1.3 listoffloats' back to `12.1.1 float'. Bug in info, > > texinfo, or subtle hint that I am supposed to read about floating > > environments a bit more yet? ;-) > > Looks like some kind of problem in Info, perhaps triggered by the fact > that "float" and its parent "Floats" both begin with the same string. > IIRC, when Info looks for a node, it is willing to accept a substring > as an argument. And that's the other. Thanks! > > The fact that SPACE at the end of the Command and Variable Index gets me > > back to `14.3.2 Ending a Sentence' seems a bit arbitrary, too. > > SPACE at the end of a node with a menu goes to the first menu item, > which in "Command and Variable Index" happens to be "Ending a > Sentence". It seems arbitrary because the order of menu items in an > index is alphabetical by the index entry, it lacks any logical order. > So this is intended behavior. Good. Thanks for the help, Ralf 2010-11-27 Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> * doc/info.texi (Help-^L): Spacing through the manual works only for tree-structured manuals. --- doc/info.texi.orig 2010-11-27 21:37:06.000000000 +0100 +++ doc/info.texi 2010-11-27 21:37:09.000000000 +0100 @@ -359,7 +359,8 @@ commands scroll through all the nodes in an Info file as a single logical sequence. You can read an entire manual top to bottom by just typing @key{SPC}, and move backward through the entire manual from -bottom to top by typing @key{DEL} (or @key{BACKSPACE}). +bottom to top by typing @key{DEL} (or @key{BACKSPACE})....@footnote{this +will not work if there are cycles in the node structure of the manual.} In this sequence, a node's subnodes appear following their parent. If a node has a menu, @key{SPC} takes you into the subnodes listed in
