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Gavin D. Smith |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:21:46 -0400 (EDT) |
branch: master
commit f6e282f04c6bacc5c8dff9cbc2a5836841ea6926
Author: Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Thu Jul 27 11:43:04 2023 +0100
* doc/info-stnd.texi (Node Commands): Reduce duplication in
discussion of 'l' command and talk less about 'discarding nodes'.
---
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
doc/info-stnd.texi | 18 +++++++-----------
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d4cb81d42c..13df6180e2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2023-07-27 Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
+
+ * doc/info-stnd.texi (Node Commands): Reduce duplication in
+ discussion of 'l' command and talk less about 'discarding nodes'.
+
2023-07-27 Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com>
* doc/info-stnd.texi (Node Commands) <goto-invocation>:
diff --git a/doc/info-stnd.texi b/doc/info-stnd.texi
index 2597b06d47..0790c9d6b7 100644
--- a/doc/info-stnd.texi
+++ b/doc/info-stnd.texi
@@ -150,22 +150,18 @@ Select the `Up' node.
@end table
You can select a node that you have already viewed in this window
-by using the @samp{l} command---this stands for ``last'', and
-moves backwards through the history of visited nodes for this
-window. This is useful when you follow a reference to another node
-to read about a related issue, and would like then to resume
-reading at the same place where you started.
-
-Each node where you press @samp{l} is discarded from the history. Thus,
-by the time you get to the first node you visited in a window, the
-entire history of that window is discarded.
+by using the @samp{l} command---this stands for ``last'':
@table @asis
@item @kbd{l} (@code{history-node})
@kindex l
@findex history-node
-Pop the most recently selected node in this window from the node
-history.
+Move backwards through the history of visited nodes for this
+window. The current node is discarded from the history.
+
+This is useful when you follow a reference to another node
+to read about a related issue, and would like then to resume
+reading at the same place where you started.
@end table
Two additional commands, @samp{t} and @samp{d}, select special nodes: