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From: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: bug#631: the M- notation suggestion
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:07:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2B58258C-8771-4478-B0B5-EF011D6EEDCA@xahlee.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KOgD6-000789-J5@fencepost.gnu.org>

On Jul 31, 2008, at 3:01 PM, Richard M Stallman wrote:

For the Emacs Manual I have a feeling this would be very wasteful.
But maybe it would be ok for some of the help commands, maybe even for
all of them.


Xah wrote:
     Wasteful, as in too much effort and little benefit?

RMS wrote:
I mean reducing what's visible on a page, and wasting paper.
But someone could try it and see.


who's doing this?

and what about making the menu show the Alt+ and Ctrl+ notation? Is  
anyone in particular doing it?

PS give me a hint perhaps on how to do the latter. I might experiment  
on both.

   Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-01  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-30  8:49 bug#631: the M- notation suggestion xah lee
2008-07-31  1:59 ` Richard M Stallman
2008-07-31  2:53   ` xah lee
2008-07-31 22:01     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-01  2:10       ` xah lee
2008-08-01  6:53       ` xah lee
2008-07-31 22:01     ` Richard M Stallman
2008-08-01  2:07       ` xah lee [this message]
2008-07-31 17:30   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-01  6:39     ` Yavor Doganov
2008-08-01  7:42       ` xah lee
2008-08-01  8:37       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]       ` <mailman.15692.1217578047.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-04 11:11         ` Joe Wells
2008-08-04 11:33           ` xah lee
2008-08-04 11:38           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)

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