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 enhancements Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:05:44 -0600 (CST) Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200312081705.hB8H5iK15399@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <878ylrbbk4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312051426.hB5EQeZ11287@f7.net> <87ekvjuuj8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312051802.hB5I2EC04476@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87d6b2iyec.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87brqkl3x2.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87vfor62k9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <871xrfy4d3.fsf@mail.jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070903742 32712 80.91.224.253 (8 Dec 2003 17:15:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 17:15:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 18:15:36 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 1ATOyu-0000YG-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:15:36 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATOyt-0005Ap-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:15:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATPwA-0000fJ-GM for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:16:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATPu1-0008GG-CI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:14:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATPtF-0007vx-D5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:14:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATPtE-0007vM-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:13:48 -0500 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 hB8HCUKk019931; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:12:30 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id hB8H5iK15399; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:05:44 -0600 (CST) 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: (message from Eli Zaretskii on 08 Dec 2003 13:40:14 +0200) 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:18557 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18557 Eli Zaretskii wrote: You don't need to actually insert "see" into the buffer, you could define an overlay instead. Please do not use overlays to insert things that look like regular text. It is extremely confusing to users who want to cut and paste, save things to file, print out hardcopy and do all kind of other everyday stuff. We already got rid of similar uses (in info with Info-hide-note-references set to t) for these reasons and made things such that only the amount of whitespace was controlled by an overlay (which is still somewhat bad, but much less bad than regular non-whitespace text). Sincerely, Luc.