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Re: [LUG] Debian no bash.info wtf

 

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013, Philip Hudson wrote:
On 10 December 2013 01:22, wes <davidson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
a brief twelve-command introduction to navigating info documents:

 http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/02/msg00018.html

Mentions two "dimensions": up-and-down (the tree hiearchy), and
next-and-previous (nodes within a tier). There is also a third:
back-and-forth (through your node navigation path history).

awesome.  yes, it mentions 'l' (history-back) but not 'r'
(history-forward).  fixing that and treating 'l' and 'r' together will
be a big improvement.

thank you.

HTML supports all three dimensons too. A well-structured reference
website will allow a web browser to navigate in all three of these
dimensions.

i see.  with the browser supplying the third, back-and-forth
relative-to your-history dimension.

btw, what about the serial plough-through-it-cover-to-cover dimension?
ie, info's ']' and '[' commands?

Most browsers don't provide a UI for up-and-down; Conkeror does
though.

http://conkeror.org

sounds interesting, and i will take a closer look when i get a chance,
but in the meantime i'm not quite sure what you mean.

do you mean that it provides the user with some convention specific to
accessing up/down links (ie, html elements described as rel=up and
rel=down)?

or do you mean something else?

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