Re: the H and h, mode line, screenful

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Wed, May 7, 2014, at 16:30, Karl Berry wrote:
> Since you bring it up again, I just changed it.  As we previously discussed:
> h = tutorial (like Emacs Info)
> H = terse cmd list

Nice, the addition of "h for tutorial" to the welcome line.  :)

(It won't fit in translation, though, so I'll use something else.)

> In vi mode, to date both h and H have always done the terse help.
> Do you (or anyone) have an opinion if that should be changed?

Vi mode?  Ah, you mean --vi-keys.  Don't know, never use it.

> I never use vi for real, but experimenting with it just now, it seems H
> (or rather :H) is not bound.

In vim, here, :H brings up the contents of the current directory in
a new window.


Anyway, while looking at the texts, I noticed a few other things.

In section 1.1 ('info info get help-small') it says: "...the text
'All' will be displayed at the bottom of the screen.  In the stand-alone
Info reader, it is displayed at the bottom right corner of the screen;
in Emacs, it is displayed on the modeline."

For the info reader, this is not correct -- my screen is 120 columns
wide and the word 'All' appears somewhere in the middle, and not
at the very bottom either, but one line up: the mode line.  So that
phrase would be better as "...the text 'All' will be displayed near the
bottom of the screen, on the mode line (the line of inverse video)."

Note also that it says "modeline" there -- in the rest of the document
"mode line" is used.  (Somewhere it says "(This is the stand-alone
equivalent for the mode line in Emacs.)"  No, it is simply called the
mode line in Info too -- see 'info info-stnd win the'.)

In that same section 1.1 it says "another screen full".  That should
be "another screenful".  (Well, this is almost proof to me that nobody
ever reads this stuff.  :) )

Benno

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