Re: --vi-keys is misdocumented

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Sun, May 14, 2017, at 19:26, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:
> Am 14.05.2017 um 13:42 schrieb Benno Schulenberg:
> > When running 'info/ginfo --vi doc/info-stnd.info cus inf'
> > it says:
> > 
> >       g       beginning-of-node
> >       G       end-of-node
> > 
> > But what they actually do is first-node and last-node.
> 
> You need to read a bit more context.  What you cite here is _not_ the 
> documentation of --vi-keys mode, nor does it claim to be.

???  Well, maybe it is not the /documentation/ of --vi-keys, but
in the manual I cannot find any other description of what keys
are supposed to do what in "vi mode".  In the 6.3 version of the
manual, there were still many keystrokes that were described with
"vi-like".  Most of them are gone now (which is good, because it
was a mess); some of them remain in 8.2.

But this is what it says at the start of section 14.1:

14.1 'infokey' format
=====================

Here is an example '.infokey' file which specifies the key bindings that
are activated by the '--vi-keys' option to Info (*note --vi-keys::).

     #info
     g       beginning-of-node
     G       end-of-node
     \mb     beginning-of-node
     \me     end-of-node
     j       next-line
     k       prev-line
[...]

So... how is that not a description of the effect of --vi-keys?

Benno

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