There is no way to navigate back in helpful-mode

When using the functionality SPC h f to describe a function, then for example face-spec-set, this will open a pop-up buffer in helpful mode. Then navigating to one of the links in the document, e.g. defface, with RETURN opens a new helpful-mode document describing defface. There is no way to go back to the first page.

There is an issue and a pull request related to adding this functionality in helpful, but the repository is nearly inactive.

Doom is using advice-add to override the default help-mode to use helpful-mode. The help-mode does have the ability to navigate back using C-c C-b, but helpful-mode does not. This makes navigating the documentation very hard.

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For now I have added (disable-packages! helpful) to packages.el.

evil mode, I try Ctrl-o and it works

C-o does not work for me unfortunately, it makes the focus jump out the help minibuffer to the nearest window before jumping to last mark. I had to disable the package too.