Re: Bug#78504: info: Impossible to scroll just a single line

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Josip Rodin <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 14:28:27 +0100
> > 
> > I can't find anyway to get info to scroll a single line at a time,
> > like man does.  This one drives me nuts, along with a few other
> > people I've talked to.  And if there *is* some way to acomplish
> > it, kindly relabel the bug as "Too difficult to scroll a single
> > line at a time". :)
> 
> There is a way:
> 
>   ESC 1 SPC   Scroll forward 1 line.
>   ESC 1 DEL   Scroll backward 1 line.
> 
> However I agree that this is just a wee bit too hard -- three keypresses for
> something as casual as scrolling?

The assumption is that the scrolling works in a way that makes this
normally unnecessary.  The only case where I can understand that this
might be required is when you want to see a certain portion of the
docs, whose size is close to a screenful, in its entirety.

> Maybe we could make the newly added Insert
> and Delete keybindings do that.

There's an easier way: invoke Info with the --vi-keys option, and use
the down-arrow (or Ctrl-n).  In this mode, the up and down arrows
scroll by single lines.

Perhaps we will be able to find some unoccupied key to bind linewise
motion commands in the Emacs mode as well...