From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: miles@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 11:42:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87isfaaqwx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FDELKNEBLPKKDCEBEJCBEEENCEAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 5 May 2004 13:32:41 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> I too think the minor (and major!) mode info was not very visible - because
> everything was visible together, separated only by ^L. And not very easy to
> use, because users needed to know about C-].
>
> Even a horizontal bar (a la <HR> in HTML) would be a better separator
> visually than ^L.
For better visual separation, a buffer-local variable `buffer-display-table'
could be modified in the Help buffer as below:
(aset buffer-display-table ?\f
(vconcat (make-vector (window-width) ?-) "^L"))
It displays a horizontal bar, but still allows to move between pages
by C-x ].
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-06 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-04 4:05 describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying Miles Bader
2004-05-04 8:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-04 11:53 ` Romain Francoise
2004-05-04 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-04 14:05 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04 14:38 ` Romain Francoise
2004-05-04 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-04 20:58 ` Drew Adams
2004-05-04 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-04 22:35 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-05 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-05 20:32 ` Drew Adams
2004-05-06 8:42 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2004-05-04 22:28 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-05 20:21 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-05 22:06 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-06 11:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-06 13:52 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-06 16:40 ` Peter Whaite
2004-05-07 12:09 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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