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From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: schwab@suse.de, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, ihs_4664@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: info mode header line missing title
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 07:32:06 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y8jm66nt.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1C4Wt5-0005mj-CN@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 06 Sep 2004 23:43:19 -0400")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>     would be displayed as:
>
>     Save Keyboard Macro >Edit Keyboard Macro <Keyboard Macro Query ^Keyboard Macros
>
> This would be fine for advanced users, but is it clear to beginners?
> I am not sure.
>
> Also this would tend to suggest that < and > are info commands for
> Previous and Next, but in fact they mean "first" and "last".

ASCII characters might be not too clear, but 1-character wide bitmaps
displaying the graphical images of arrows should be clear for all users.

Example:

(defconst info-next-pbm
"P1
10 10\",
0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0"
  "PBM data for next node icon.")

There are exactly the same arrow shapes visible in the tool bar
(though, with a bigger size), so users are already familiar with these
arrows and it will be clear for users that the same meanings of arrows
(next, prev and up) is valid for the header line too.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-07  4:32 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
2004-09-07  3:43               ` Richard Stallman
2004-09-07  4:32                 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
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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