source format vs info/html

Posted Dec 17, 2014 12:04 UTC (Wed) by mchapman (subscriber, #66589)
In reply to: source format vs info/html by epa
Parent article: Emacs and changing documentation formats

> Yes you can page through it with space - which causes the current page to vanish and be replaced by the next page.

I find the single biggest usability improvement to GNU Info is to turn this behaviour off. If the documentation is going to be split up into separate chapters (which I don't find particularly annoying, to be honest), then it's better to not have the viewer jump between chapters and completely refresh the screen when you're not expecting it to.

To change this behaviour you need to set up an ~/.infokey file containing:

#var
scroll-behaviour=Page Only

Then run infokey to compile that to ~/.info. Who said GNU Info wasn't user-friendly? :-)