Re: info

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Luc Teirlinck wrote:

> Redefine RETURN in Info-mode to be just a shortcut for "m RETURN".

That's not good: RET also follows a cross-reference near point, not only 
menu items.  So it must first find out what is ``the thing'' near point 
that it should follow, and then do it.

> If it is impossible to figure out which
> node the user really wants, then, rather than info making a completely
> wild guess, as it currently does, the user would be alerted to that
> fact with
> 
> Menu item:
> 
> appearing in the echo area.

I'm not sure I like it: what RET does currently in Info is similar to 
many other programs which support links or references of some kind: if 
there's no link anywhere in sight, they do nothing, no questions asked.
Users generally know that if RET didn't have any effect, point is not on 
a link.  What you suggest deviates significantly from that behavior, and 
I seriously wonder whether the downsides of the deviation are justified 
by whatever gains you think we'll have.