From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:21:55 -0500 (CDT) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200309271521.h8RFLtb08905@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <2914-Sat27Sep2003130207+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064676532 25691 80.91.224.253 (27 Sep 2003 15:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 15:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 27 17:28:50 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3H06-0006BJ-00 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:28:50 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3H06-0002PL-00 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:28:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A3GxJ-00032X-Ob for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:25:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A3Gx2-0002yR-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:25:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A3Gwz-0002xc-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:25:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A3Gwz-0002xL-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 11:25:37 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8RFPYAJ003261; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:25:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id h8RFLtb08905; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:21:55 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: eliz@elta.co.il In-reply-to: <2914-Sat27Sep2003130207+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16698 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16698 Eli Zarestkii wrote: Here's one example, indented by my by 4 characters (I also capitalized the menu entry name, since in Emacs it stands out in color): * SEQUENCES ARRAYS Vectors Lists, strings and vectors are called sequences. Certain functions act on any kind of sequence. The description of vectors is here as well. I do not see this. With: emacs-21.3.50 -q --eval \"(blink-cursor-mode 0)\" & and then: C-h i m Elisp RET I get: * Sequences Arrays Vectors Lists, strings and vectors are called sequences. Certain functions act on any kind of sequence. The description of vectors is here as well. and with `Info-hide-note-references' set to nil I get: * Sequences Arrays Vectors:: Lists, strings and vectors are called sequences. Certain functions act on any kind of sequence. The description of vectors is here as well. both of which look reasonable to me. The only reason for the: --eval \"(blink-cursor-mode 0)\" is that I can not stand blinking cursors, not even for short periods of time. Are you getting the effect you describe using emacs -q? Or are you seeing the same I am seeing, but copied it indented differently in your mail buffer? In that case, I personally believe that aligning things further to the right (than in the two examples I showed, certainly the second) would look ugly for longer descriptions and make Info menus more difficult to use, because of the (in my opinion) needless increase in vertical space used up by the description. Sincerely, Luc.