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. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free We freed Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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