on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 07:18:08PM +0100, Michael Mauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self schrieb: > > > on Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 08:57:27PM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > 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 don't see how a web browser could change the order of the pages ;-)
It changes the expectation of browsing. Plus, the browser's *own* forward / back / up buttons follow the path of your browsing session, not of the document hierarchy. > > 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. > > What's wrong with the (L)ast key? Discovering it. 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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