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

[Gavin Smith]

On 30 October 2016 at 16:30, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@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.