bug#24825: [help-texinfo] "help" content

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 08:08:40 +0000
> Cc: "help-texinfo@gnu.org" <help-texinfo@gnu.org>
> 
> On 17 October 2016 at 19:26, madhou <madh2001@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just noticed in the "help" content which is accessed via the key 'h', it 
> > is
> > mentionned that the '?' key stroke should display a brief list of commands. 
> > It
> > actually prompts with a "Regexp search backward: " instead. After doing some
> > search on internet I found that the right key that works on my version of
> > texinfo is 'H'. I'm running slackware 14.2, the version of the GNU texinfo
> > shipped within is 6.1.
> 
> Hello, the content accessed via 'h' (the info.info file) is maintained
> in Emacs. Maybe one of their developers could change the text?
> 
> (info)Help-^L
> 
>    You have just learned a considerable number of commands.  If you want
> to use one but have trouble remembering which, you should type '?',
> which displays a brief list of commands.  When you are finished looking
> at the list, make it go away by typing <SPC> repeatedly.

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.

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?)