On 30 October 2016 at 16:30, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote: > There's a problem here: the '?' key still does in Emacs what the > manual says it should. So this is a discrepancy between the Emacs > Info reader and the stand-alone Info reader, and I'm not sure Emacs > should be the one which changes.
I was asking for the documentation to be changed to mention that you can press H in the stand-alone info reader, not for what emacs does to be changed. > Why was '?' in the stand-alone reader bound to search-backward? It > makes little sense to me, at least when in the default Emacs mode. (I > notice that '?' has the same binding in the vi mode, perhaps someone > wanted to have the cake and eat it, too?) Because "H" is available for the help window and ? searches back in both vi and less, and users may be used to using the latter to read man pages and using / and ? to search through a manual. / also searches forward so it is consistent for ? to search backward.
