From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: occur-hook changing the current buffer Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:40:43 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <20050629.064043.57447549.wl@gnu.org> References: <20050627.223158.39168003.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1120020768 17842 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2005 04:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:52:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 29 06:52:40 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnUYh-0001Bi-Fo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:52:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnUe8-00084c-LN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnUdI-0007mk-Qz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:57:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DnUdE-0007kD-36 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DnUdE-0007kA-03 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:57:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [212.227.126.186] (helo=moutng.kundenserver.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DnUSQ-00035n-Lm; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:45:55 -0400 Original-Received: from p54AFAD79.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.175.173.121] (helo=rigel.site) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKwh2-1DnUNp3E5E-0007GI; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rigel.site (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id j5T4ehAw006977; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:40:43 +0200 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 4.2.50 on Emacs 22.0.50.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:2dc398bc694a1e60948148ba0a42c0da X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:39868 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:39868 > What about a table of contents and enumerating the sections, > subsections, and subsubsections? > > I don't know if a table of contents would help at all. The problem > is not the number of different pages but the number of different > items. ??? I don't understand. Please try again. > Likewise I don't see that giving numbers to the items would help. It would help users to navigate in the NEWS file in case there is no outline-mode. Just compare it with, say, a big HOWTO file for GNU/Linux. If I find in the TOC that the I have to go to section 1.2.3, I just do a forward search to this item. Additionally, while doing a quick scrolling down, regularly increased section numbers help the eye to find a section more easily. Werner