Re: TAB for non-editing modes

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> For info, help, man, woman TAB does something like "goto the next
> link". 
>
> TAB does not do anything for pcvs, dired, log-view and maybe
> others. It would be nice if TAB would do something for these modes
> too.  
> A navigational semantic like info/help/man do seems that would be
> intuitive (it should certainly be better than the current "error
> because the buffer is read-only" behavior).
> (similarly for backtab)
>
> Thoughts?

Good and important idea. I think this is what most users would expect 
since both the modes you mention and programs like web browsers behaves 
this way.