From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:59:07 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200206101359.g5ADx7b28021@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <87bsaos1fl.fsf@orebokech.com> <200206072322.g57NMtK27277@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xbsam1tje.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <87wut9tppe.fsf@orebokech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023717644 1527 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2002 14:00:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:00:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HPiu-0000OW-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:00:44 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17HQ5l-000173-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:24:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HPiJ-0005s5-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:00:07 -0400 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HPhN-0005jt-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5ADx7b28021; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 09:59:07 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: "Robert J. Chassell" Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4700 > There are two orthogonal questions regarding the header/links lines > in an *info* buffer: > > 1. Should Emacs Info use up extra space in an Info display by > showing a second line, a line that many people dislike? > > 2. Should it be possible to copy the file name and node name of an > Info file from a node seen in Info. > > From the comments, many people are against # 1, either because screen > space is valuable or because they dislike seeing a second line, or both. > > As for # 2: some people never seem to want to refer other people to > Info nodes. They never tell people to RTFM, but I do. > > I set `Info-use-header-line' to `nil' in my .emacs file and copy the > lines that tell people the file name and node name. (There is a > command for this using the fancy header lines that exist by default, > but I cannot remember it; I just copy the `non-header' line.) > > Evidentally, the new-styule `header lines' are constructed to be like > mode lines, which cannot be copied and never have been able to be > copied. (And I have never missed be unable to copy them.) However, > since I often tell people to RTFM, I do copy the headers for Info > nodes. How about having a right-click on the header-line or somesuch pop-up a menu where you can select "copy location to kill-ring" ? The location could even be more verbose than the displayed one, i.e. (info "(emacs)Top") or some such. This is very much like what most browsers allow you to do on a `link', so it might be "intuitive enough". Stefan