On Sat, May 13, 2017, at 13:38, Gavin Smith wrote: > If we forget about what Info does already, and ask what the "right > thing" is, what's the answer? What's the most intutitive and powerful > interface? Up and Down to scroll the page and Tab and S-Tab/M-Tab to > move between links?
I would say yes, because that is what web browsers like Firefox and Chromium do. That is what most people will be familiar with. > I looked at the Lynx web browser and it uses Up and Down for both > scrolling and moving between links. It will only scroll if there are no > more links on the currently-displayed part of a page. Yes, another infuriating interface, because it is unobvious how to scroll the screen just a few lines. Only after looking at help, one learns about ^N and ^P, but those are awkward to type for just a little scrolling. And: they get stuck when they land on an input field. Argh. > > The best would be to let scroll-behavior affect also also the down-line > > and up-line commands, and bind those by default to the arrow keys. > > This would be an easy change to make, but some people might hold down > Down to go to the end of the node but not want to go to the next node. > Any change could be confusing and disorienting for people who are used > to the current behaviour. The current default behavior (no options, no .infokey) already /is/ that <Down> passes across node boundaries, so there won't be any surprises there. This change was made a few years ago, and nobody complained, so I doubt anyone will complain about down-line and up-line getting more "far-reaching". Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service
