From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, ihs_4664@yahoo.com, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: info mode header line missing title
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:38:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874qmcwdcx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jefz5yt95c.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Sat, 04 Sep 2004 16:13:03 +0200")
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Please show some statistics to back up this assertion. In my
>> experience, a large percent of Info nodes have long names so that the
>> header line overflows the 79-character limit.
>
> I can confirm this. On my system more than 50% of the Info nodes would
> overflow the limit if the node name would be included in the header line.
> Without it, only about 10% remain.
>
> $ zgrep -h '^File: .*Node:' *.gz | wc -l
> 16965
> $ zgrep -h '^File: .*Node:' *.gz | sed -n 's/^[^,]*, *//; /.\{80,\}/p' | wc -l
> 9133
This query is not quite right. The proposed format was without the
"Node: " prefix. So more proper query is:
$ zgrep -h '^File: .*Node:' *.gz | sed -n 's/^[^,]*, *Node: //; /.\{80,\}/p' | wc -l
======
It gives on my system 32% of nodes whose headers would be longer than
80 characters, against 8% of header lines without the node name at all.
But fourfold increase is no good. So I propose another improvement:
to replace prefixes "Next: ", "Prev: " and "Up: " with 1-character
arrow glyphs representing their meanings ("<" - prev, ">" - next,
"^" - up). With this change the header line:
Save Keyboard Macro, Next: Edit Keyboard Macro, Prev: Keyboard Macro Query, Up: Keyboard Macros
would be displayed as:
Save Keyboard Macro >Edit Keyboard Macro <Keyboard Macro Query ^Keyboard Macros
On my estimations this gives the same percent of nodes (on my system 9%)
as for currently truncated header lines without the node name.
The query to prove it is:
$ zgrep -h '^File: .*Node:' *.gz | sed -n 's/^[^,]*, *Node: //; /.\{99,\}/p' | wc -l
since the length of the saved text ", Next:, Prev:, Up:" is 19 characters.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-05 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.657.1093861497.1998.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-08-30 18:53 ` info mode header line missing title Kevin Rodgers
2004-09-02 16:59 ` Juri Linkov
2004-09-03 17:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-03 20:54 ` Juri Linkov
2004-09-04 11:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-09-04 14:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-09-05 5:12 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-05 20:38 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2004-09-07 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-07 4:32 ` Juri Linkov
2004-09-08 0:21 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.1906.1094603231.1998.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-09-08 15:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-08-30 10:19 joseph
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