From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 18:06:58 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20040505220658.GA7789@fencepost> References: <87wu3s96ru.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <20040504222834.GB10432@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083795152 28798 80.91.224.253 (5 May 2004 22:12:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 22:12:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 00:12:26 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLUcs-0007q6-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 00:12:26 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLUcs-0005La-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 00:12:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLUb9-0000Fm-0S for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 18:10:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLUYD-0007rS-To for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 18:07:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLUXh-0007gS-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 18:07:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLUXg-0007gH-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 May 2004 18:07:04 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1BLUXa-0002Qa-Ae; Wed, 05 May 2004 18:06:58 -0400 Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 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:22822 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22822 On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 04:21:08PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > > This might be ok. It should also suggest typing C-x ] C-x ] to get to > > the minor mode information. That should always work, since the major > > mode doc string should never contain a page break. > > You don't think the hyperlink is enough? > > Moving to that link and using it is a lot more characters > than C-x ] C-x ]. It's actually fewer characters: TAB RET [I think the `TAB reflex' is one many people already have too, as it works in (mainstream) web-browsers, as well as for most uses of hyperlinks in emacs.] -Miles -- Come now, if we were really planning to harm you, would we be waiting here, beside the path, in the very darkest part of the forest?