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bug#9528: 24.0.50; Info navigation


From: Dani Moncayo
Subject: bug#9528: 24.0.50; Info navigation
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:45:39 +0200

>> > Note that "C-h l" does not say "the last node _presented_", it says
>> > "the last node _visited_".
>>
>> (info "(info-stnd) Node Commands") says:
>>
>> `l' (`history-node')
>>      Pop the most recently _selected_ node in this window from the node
>>      history.
>
> That's a documentation bug.  See the manual for the correct
> description.


The same behavior is documented in (info "(info)Help-Int"):

>    If you have been moving around to different nodes and wish to
> retrace your steps, the `l' command (`l' for "last") will do that, one
> node-step at a time.  As you move from node to node, Info records the
> nodes where you have been in a special history list.  The `l' command
> revisits nodes in the history list; each successive `l' command moves
> one step back through the history.

Note the "you have been in".  IMO, it is clear that it refers to nodes
you have selected, as Juri says.  IMHO, that is what makes sense for
users.

-- 
Dani Moncayo





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