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Re: Where do you RTFM ?



On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 08:41:19PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 08:57:27PM -0600, John Hasler (john@dhh.gt.org) wrote:
> > dman writes:
> > > Personally it is the emacs-centric interface.
> > 
> > What is emacs-centric about (N)ext, (P)revious, (U)p, (S)earch, and ENTER?
> 
> How about the fact that NPU have no relationship to your _own_ path
> through the documentation tree (as they would in, say, a web browser,
> which is, along with 'less', the most common text-reading environment
> most of us know.

I see. So you're surprised by all those web pages that have next, and
previous buttons too:)

> I constantly find myself surprised with where info wants to take me, and
> perplexed at how to get back to where I wanted to be.

Ah, at last I can full heartedly agree with you:)  Especially when
dealing with nested uses of the Last button, I get lost and often have
to go back to the top level of the document.

-- 
groetjes, carel



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