Re: Stand-alone Info and info-mode inconsistency: end of buffer behavior

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 10:51:55PM +0100, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > This can be configured using the scroll-behaviour and cursor-motion-scrolls
> > variables in .infokey (see Info node (info-stnd)Variables).
> >
> > The info-stnd manual starts,
> >
> >   You can read through the rest of this manual by typing <SPC> and <DEL>
> >   (or <Space> and <Backspace>)
> >
> > I doubt would help to stop this from working and leave the user stuck
> > on the Top node.
> >
> > It was likely made to act this way on the past based on user feedback
> > and I doubt it is warranted to make such a change now.
> 
> As Eli noted, I was referring to C-n and the arrow keys (the latter of
> which fresh users are highly likely to try, I think).

People complain that they can't read through an Info manual by
pressing the up and down arrow keys like they can with Less, but at
least holding the down key will eventually bring them to a new node,
even though this is a suboptimal way to load the next node.  How can
we know that stopping the cursor at the bottom of the node will help
new users, and won't lead to more users getting stuck and giving up
because they can't work out how to get the next node?