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<SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node

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Message #30 received at 3454 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: zedzap <at> gmail.com, 3454 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3454: <SPC> when reading the emacs manual sometimes goes to the wrong node
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:11:11 -0400

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: 3454 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:06:12 -0400
> 
> Actually I think that SPC's behavior in index nodes is wrong.
> Basically, SPC currently presumes that info nodes linked by menus form
> a tree, and it is mostly true, but not for index menus.

Index is just a large menu; it's not easy to distinguish the two, and
the decision would be error-prone.  We already tried to ``improve''
Info, and I cannot say that the result looks good.

I don't see why bother in this case: a human can always know that she
is in an index, and not use SPC near the end.

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