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

[Adam Olsen]

On Sat, 09 Dec 2000, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 10:45:05 +0200
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> Subject: Re: Bug#78504: info: Impossible to scroll just a single line
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> > Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 20:33:55 -0700
> > From: Adam Olsen <address@hidden>
> > 
> > Hmmm.  TAB does work for going through menu items, but there doesn't
> seem
> > to be any way to go backwords through them (shift-TAB, the most obvious
> > method, does nothing.)
> 
> Try ESC TAB, it should go to the previous xref or menu item.
> 
> > The reason I like man is that it's "simple, straightforward, and
> > intuitive", and this behavior isn't..
> 
> That's unfair: `man' doesn't have any cross-references to begin with,
> so it doesn't need to solve these problems.

Yeah, it is a bit harsh.  But keep in mind that I'm saying this because I
want info to be perfect so I can completely stop using man :)

> 
> But I agree that if there are free keys left that can be used for
> movong between xref's, they should be bound to these commands.  It's
> just that Less uses so many keys that it is hard to come up with
> something reasonable.
> 
> > hrm, just noticed that 'u' doesn't work either..
> 
> That's because `u' has a different (and quite frequently-used)
> function in Less.  `n', `p', and `u' are remapped to C-x n, C-x p, and
> C-x u, respectively in the --vi-keys operation.

And I'd like to state that I *just* want to scroll one line at a time, not
emulate Less.  Cleary, as all the conflicts with key usage shows, these are
entierly different things.