From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard M Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#631: the M- notation suggestion Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:01:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org, 631@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217543268 31540 80.91.229.12 (31 Jul 2008 22:27:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: xah lee Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 01 00:28:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KOgdQ-000721-R0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:28:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41515 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOgcW-00082V-Gp for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOgcI-0007z2-7b for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:27:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOgcH-0007yQ-2D for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33335 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOgcG-0007yM-VD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:49553) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOgcG-0006QD-Nj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:27:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m6VMRLPD020894; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:27:21 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m6VMA6Ow015990; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:10:06 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: Richard M Stallman Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:10:06 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 631 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B.121754175513728 (code B ref -1); Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:10:06 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 31 Jul 2008 22:02:35 +0000 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [199.232.76.165]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m6VM2V9e013716 for ; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:02:33 -0700 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOgE9-0004gL-Fe for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KOgE4-0004fr-Ur for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:02:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40264 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KOgE4-0004fo-Ri for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:02:24 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:38840) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KOgE4-0003lu-FQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:02:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KOgD6-000789-J5; Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:01:24 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from xah lee on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:53:21 -0700) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:27:25 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:18943 Archived-At: > 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. Wasteful, as in too much effort and little benefit? I mean reducing what's visible on a page, and wasting paper. But someone could try it and see.