From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Info menus on text-mode terminals Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:02:07 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <2914-Sat27Sep2003130207+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064657262 3122 80.91.224.253 (27 Sep 2003 10:07:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 10:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 27 12:07:41 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 1A3BzJ-0004ur-00 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:07:41 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A3BzI-0001gN-00 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:07:41 +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 1A3BxE-0006kL-As for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:05:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A3Bwl-0006ju-L3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:05:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 1A3Bwj-0006jS-OM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:05:02 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.22] (helo=gollum.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A3Bwj-0006jK-3l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 06:05:01 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.149.110]) by gollum.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id BMV38011; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:04:56 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 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:16694 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16694 Did someone look lately at how we display Info menus on text-mode terminals? For example, type "C-h i d m elisp RET". I think this is ugly, especially the way the long descriptions are wrapped. 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. Is it possible to do better than that? Any hope of aligning the descriptive text on some column that is farther to the right, like this: * 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.