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Re: Some developement questions
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Some developement questions |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Sep 2018 01:01:19 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> It's important to understand that changes which would make life easier
>> for you may well be making life harder for existing users. Changing
>> established key bindings (which have been in muscle memory of many
>> users for literal decades) is a big deal.
>
> Yes, I'm not suggesting to remove existing key bindings for this, only
> to add Alt+left and Alt+right to go back and forth in info buffers.
It's so unfortunate that due to historical reasons we can't provide
intuitive and convenient keys for Info navigation <M-left> and <M-right>.
Long time ago I configured to use Mozilla-like navigation where <M-left>
goes back in history, but <M-right> goes forward in history unless
point is on a link in which case it visits the link. And like in
Lynx-like navigation, <M-down> and <M-up> move point to the next/prev
link, and when there are no visible links on the page, scroll to next/prev
page. Maybe as some packages like windmove allow customization
of modifiers for their keys, Info navigation keys could be provided
with a different modifier like <S-left> and <S-right>?
> Users may prefer reading documentation in a web browser for at least two
> reasons: Navigation is easier, and the browser can have Tabs. This is
> kinda only one reason, but can Emacs have Tabs?
>
> If Emacs can have Tabs and show its documentation with all the ease a
> web browser can, life would be much easier for many users.
Do you mean frame-local or window-local tabs? Frame-local tabs are now
easier to implement since we have side windows, but I'm still not sure how
a side window can be created above an individual window to contain its
window-local tabbar?
- Re: Some developement questions, (continued)
- Re: Some developement questions, hw, 2018/09/01
- Re: Some developement questions, Joshua Branson, 2018/09/01
- Re: Some developement questions, hw, 2018/09/02
- Re: Some developement questions, Ergus, 2018/09/02
- Re: Some developement questions, hw, 2018/09/04
- Re: Some developement questions, Ergus, 2018/09/04
- Re: Some developement questions, hw, 2018/09/05
Re: Some developement questions, Phil Sainty, 2018/09/01
- Re: Some developement questions, hw, 2018/09/02
- Re: Some developement questions,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: Some developement questions, martin rudalics, 2018/09/03
- Re: Some developement questions, hw, 2018/09/04
- Re: Some developement questions, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/09/04
- Re: Some developement questions, hw, 2018/09/05
Re: Some developement questions, martin rudalics, 2018/09/03
RE: Some developement questions, Drew Adams, 2018/09/01
Re: Some developement questions, Ergus, 2018/09/02
Re: Some developement questions, hw, 2018/09/01