Package: w3m
Version: 0.5.3-19
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

after pressing H, w3m displays the help panel.

The indicated key bindings are not in accordance with the conventions 
presented in MANUAL.html (as well in MANUAL.html of version in 
0.5.3-29), which

- declares that there is the meta modifier key, denoted as "M"

- explain that a space denotes sequential pressing 
of keys and a minus denotes simultaneous pressing of keys.

Instead, the mentioned help panel uses throughout keystroke combinations 
with ESC and -, such as ESC-v.

The problem is, that the ESC key has properties of a switch. Pressed 
once, it modifies a following keystroke, pressed twice, it does not 
modify the following keystroke. It is the ALT key that behaves the way. 
It combines with simultaneously pressed keys but a single stroke on 
this key does not affect keys that are pressed afterwards.

To avoid problems for the user, the online help page shall use the 
same notation as MANUAL.html,

For example, instead of 

 ESC-v,b,-,^[[5~         Move to previous page (PREV_PAGE)

the help panel shall show

 M-v,b,-,^[[5~         Move to previous page (PREV_PAGE)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages w3m depends on:
ii  libc6        2.19-18
ii  libgc1c2     1:7.2d-6.4
ii  libgpm2      1.20.4-6.1+b2
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1k-3
ii  libtinfo5    5.9+20140913-1+b1
ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages w3m recommends:
ii  ca-certificates  20141019

Versions of packages w3m suggests:
pn  cmigemo       <none>
ii  man-db        2.7.0.2-5
ii  mime-support  3.58
pn  w3m-el        <none>
ii  w3m-img       0.5.3-19

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