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: 12 Jun 2002 01:45:05 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xelfd2xdq.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> <200206111925.g5BJPZh03612@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023835558 17717 127.0.0.1 (11 Jun 2002 22:45:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 22:45:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, bob@rattlesnake.com, 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 17HuOk-0004be-00 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:45:58 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17HumG-0003jS-00 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 01:10:16 +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 17HuO5-00050D-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HuNJ-0004w7-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 18:44:29 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 13C3E7C016; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 22:44:22 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Jason Rumney In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 30 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:4767 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4767 Jason Rumney writes: > Richard Stallman writes: > > > However, in one respect it would not be better than the method we used > > a week ago: it would always use a screen line for the header line. > > If we want to save more screen space for the text, this will not do so. > > For that we would have to eliminate the header line entirely. > > The use of the header line for info links is one change in Emacs 21 > that has *not* attracted lots of complaints of wasted screen space. I > think most users consider that the usefulness of having navigation > links always at the top of the info window outweighs the extra space > used. Yes, the typical reaction on the new "sticky" header line is: very nice! > ... and work towards > a longer term goal of making it possible to copy information from the > header and mode lines. I just added a new function `format-mode-line' to CVS emacs which returns the current mode-line or header-line of the selected (or a specified) window as a string [without properties]. So now you can copy them from lisp; next step is to make bindings to do this. [any volounteers?] -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk