simpler help texts, default key for delete-window

[Benno Schulenberg]

Karl Berry wrote:
>     [...] the addition of "[*]    Command acts [...]
>
> Overkill, agreed.  Removed.

Then also the trailing " [*]" in the explanation of Tab can go.

The order of the command keys after "Return" isn't very logical.  
After RET should follow first its opposite: "last".  And then "up",
"top", and "dir".  The addition of "Equivalent to..." in two of the 
axplanations doesn't seem very useful.  So I propose the following 
order and texts:

RET         Follow the hypertext link under the cursor (Enter).
l           Go back to the last node seen in this window.
u           Go up one level.
t           Go to the top node of this document.
d           Go to the main `directory' node.

>     Or leave M-TAB out altogether,
>
> I like that :).  Removed.

On second thought, this is maybe not such a good idea.  It might be 
better to assign it by default a plain key -- maybe "A", for "Aft".

In my .infokey file I have the following lines:

x       delete-window
c       keep-one-window
v       split-window

Having at least the "x" bound by default to delete-window would be 
nice.  Then it becomes relatively easy to close the help window 
again, without having to wait for the reassignment of a second "h".

Instead of saying "Quit this help" it is probably better to describe 
the closing command as "Close this help window", reserving the 
word "quit" to describe only "q".

On a 33-line 80-column Konsole, typing "h" shows a 14-line help 
window, of which 6 lines are used for whitespace, dashes, and 
unneeded texts.  So I propose to remove the lines of stars and 
dashes, leave out the headers of the little subsections (the 
grouping through blank lines alone says enough), and let the first 
line say "Basic 'info' command keys".  So the first 14 lines of a 
help window would look like this:

Basic 'info' command keys

x           Close this help window.
q           Quit 'info' altogether.
H           Invoke the Info tutorial.

]           Go to the next node in this document.
[           Go to the previous node in this document.
TAB         Skip to the next hypertext link.
a           Skip to the previous hypertext link.
RET         Follow the hypertext link under the cursor (Enter).
l           Go back to the last node seen in this window.
u           Go up one level.
t           Go to the top node of this document.

The search-backward command really deserves a default key binding.  
To see it listed as "M-x search-backward" in a list of basic info 
commands, only accessible via a long M-x command, is... absurd.  
Maybe the "z" key is an option -- for its location opposite to "/" 
on the keyboard.

At the very bottom of the help window it says:
--- Use `l' or `C-x k' to exit ---
But that is really not what the user wants.

Also, when scrolling down through the help text, it should stop at 
the bottom, fully stop -- and not beep, say "No more nodes within 
this document", and go back to the top.

Benno