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Re: Where do you RTFM ?



on Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 12:01:43AM +0100, Carel Fellinger (cfelling@iae.nl) wrote:
> 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:)

Previously addressed:  there is a distinction between navigation native
to the _browser_ (following the browser history), and to that native to
the _content_ (following the document hierarchy).  Info blends these, to
its loss IMVAO.

Peace.

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