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Inconsistent documentation of h and H commands in Info


From: N. Jackson
Subject: Inconsistent documentation of h and H commands in Info
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 22:24:18 -0400

On Fedora GNU/Linux 19 version 3.12.6-200.fc19.x86_64 (of Mon Dec 23
16:33:38 UTC 2013) with info (GNU texinfo) 5.1, the man page for Info
states "For a summary of key bindings, type h within Info.", and
indeed, typing h in Info brings up a summary of key bindings. On the
other hand typing H brings up the Info tutorial.

However, when I do

$ info info

The first node that appears "Info: An Introduction"  (which identifies
itself as "Info: (info.info.gz)Top") says on it (3rd paragraph) "If
you are new to the Info reader and want to learn how to use it, type
the command 'h' now.  It brings you to a programmed instruction
sequence." This does not work. H brings up the tutorial ("programmed
instructions sequence") and h brings up the summary of key bindings.

In that summary of keybindings appears the following entries:

H           Invoke the Info tutorial.
H       (get-info-help-node)Visit Info node `(info)Help'
h       (get-help-window)Display help message

It's not entirely clear to me what these entries mean exactly but I
think they're consistent with the behaviour I'm seeing.

I believe that means there is just one inconsistency: In "Info: An
Introduction" where it says "If you are new to the Info reader and
want to learn how to use it, type the command 'h' now.  It brings you
to a programmed instruction sequence." it ought to read "If you are
new to the Info reader and want to learn how to use it, type the
command 'H' now.  It brings you to a programmed instruction sequence."



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