From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mathias Dahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: put value last in *Help* buffer for C-h v? Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:16:40 +0200 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0703270416v6c75d0b8q658093ccb3979a26@mail.gmail.com> References: <7dbe73ed0703260633i312eedebt31a3a1413cd4db45@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174994215 6462 80.91.229.12 (27 Mar 2007 11:16:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:16:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 27 13:16:47 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HW9fT-00084p-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:16:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HW9ho-0007Rk-Dc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:19:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HW9hl-0007Ol-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HW9hk-0007Jz-1T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HW9hj-0007Jj-Ux for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:19:07 -0500 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HW9fN-0002cZ-Qh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:16:42 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so2024995ugf for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:16:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=bOdvP3yyABWh4rImAqCW0eQsQHk0QRHPnneOLiMLQTMkP8pimB2KjJc58F00EjjsvoO3TE/kcL8GHcXZXrvOHk+tbSJY5WQSy7IRT8JOkLavKgpmOGKamihRfdZ05BHqbAfPBoynfJXxSVEth3xCoW/PACseMQiuQYqtLzddGrc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=WWSYcPZVR/sk1q8udY6Z72V330XLcfIOMMW45G5mMq1Uc7g/rJX56cE8SYCFXwXPxaINWaMN4P1wrMiPO/VMVYP6qGOaIRD9GNFHpBa/3p/SuLgauAyzet9TtQTJIEpLeFFa8jIGAsFPPCrCYZZG6xjnzdPEudfEHlFoXy42//o= Original-Received: by 10.78.106.3 with SMTP id e3mr3452353huc.1174994200671; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:16:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.12.3 with HTTP; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:16:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:68666 Archived-At: > > [back] > > Value: > > t > > [back] > > That's why I said "if it is longer than, say, 50 lines." In the case you > gave, the value takes up only one line. Sorry for being unclear; my point was that we SHOULD, in principle, always print out the second [back], because of consistency. But at the same time I do not agree with myself because I think my own "rule" would create goofy situation like above. In other words, don't listen to me... > Make it 1000 lines instead of 50, if you like. I figured that if you have to > scroll down, then another [back] button could be helpful. Yes, and I agree.