From: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 2176@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#2176: 2176 proposal
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:59:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFXT+RNsrRY0mzD1Nb=CpN=wyiKSNctPkTcPBVBCeaDiJzz=NQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1QlZix-0005Cj-Q3@fencepost.gnu.org>
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My goal was to shorten up the text, as it's a little verbose. I think that
people are, by and large, used to the UI convention of "blue underlined"
means a link, but I get your point. What do you think would be the
appropriate part of the text to link? "recover-session" is the action, so
linking that would make sense, but the constant text changing (i.e.,
variable-pitch for the beginning of the line, fixed-pitch for "M-x",
fixed-pitch link for "recover-session", then variable-pitch again for the
rest of the line) gives it a jarring effect, at least to me. Perhaps I'm
overanalyzing. What do you think of the effects of this patch?
Do we also want "Meta-x" instead of "M-x", to make it easier for such users,
even though the usage is different from almost everywhere else in Emacs?
-Zachary Kanfer
=== modified file 'lisp/startup.el'
*** lisp/startup.el 2011-07-14 12:57:06 +0000
--- lisp/startup.el 2011-07-28 05:56:34 +0000
*************** a face or button specification."
*** 1574,1586 ****
auto-save-list-file-prefix)))
t)
(fancy-splash-insert :face '(variable-pitch font-lock-comment-face)
! "\nIf an Emacs session crashed recently, "
! "type "
! :face '(fixed-pitch font-lock-comment-face)
! "Meta-x recover-session RET"
:face '(variable-pitch font-lock-comment-face)
! "\nto recover"
! " the files you were editing."))
(when concise
(fancy-splash-insert
--- 1574,1587 ----
auto-save-list-file-prefix)))
t)
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 23:13:00 -0400
> >
> > This patch makes the line include a link to run 'recover-session .
> > It also rephrases the text. The text used to be "If an Emacs session
> crashed
> > recently, type Meta-x recover-session RET \nto recover the files you were
> > editing." The rephrased text is "If Emacs crashed recently, you may
> recover
> > your previous session."
> > The text no longer tells you how to run the command (i.e., with Meta-x
> > recover-session RET). This is in line with the other commands on the page
> > (e.g., Emacs Tutorial, Open a File).
>
> Recovering a crashed session is much more important than visiting a
> tutorial or opening a file. I would understand and support a
> suggestion to _add_ a clickable link, but why would you want to remove
> the information about invoking recovery by hand? A user whose session
> crashed may be under pressure, and not immediately recognize the
> significance of the blue underlined portion of the text.
>
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2011-07-26 3:13 ` bug#2176: 2176 proposal Zachary Kanfer
2011-07-26 4:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-28 5:59 ` Zachary Kanfer [this message]
2012-04-11 12:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-12-01 2:12 ` bug#2176: Observations on the splash screen - and signal-process Chong Yidong
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