From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer Date: 10 Jun 2002 21:57:21 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xadq2gb4u.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <87bsaos1fl.fsf@orebokech.com> <200206072322.g57NMtK27277@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xbsam1tje.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <87wut9tppe.fsf@orebokech.com> <200206101359.g5ADx7b28021@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023735459 23266 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2002 18:57:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HUMF-000639-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:57:39 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17HUjD-0007y0-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:21:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HULw-0003hY-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HULN-0003fa-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:56:45 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id DEDC07C016; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:56:37 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: bob@rattlesnake.com In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4713 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4713 "Robert J. Chassell" writes: > How about having a right-click on the header-line or somesuch pop-up > a menu where you can select "copy location to kill-ring" ? > > This new interface is wrong. Instead, Emacs should continue to > provide a `you can copy what you can see (or hear)' interface, but > adapt it to new circumstances. > You have never been able to copy what's in the mode-line. The new header-line has the same limitation. I don't see that as wrong (but a general limitation on some elements of an emacs frame.) > I like the traditional Info header style: I like being told which file > I am in. That information is also shown as the buffer name in the mode-line. What's the point of duplicating it in the header line? -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk