From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:28:55 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87odh14yro.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87fy2oms2y.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl6o3rj1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> <87bqd744yp.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0708190830r22e7595dh83314f3b71125cae@mail.gmail.com> <8t8x87vszo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187652991 23309 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2007 23:36:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:36:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org, mathias.dahl@gmail.com To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 01:36:28 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 1INGnL-0005mp-K9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:36:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INGnM-0003a0-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:36:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INGmT-0002mH-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INGmR-0002l3-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:35:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INGmR-0002kw-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:35:31 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INGmH-0001SC-SA; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1INGmC-00080v-F3; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:35:20 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 20 Aug 2007 14\:30\:55 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: b36477657b07eb27dc67b07df918f397 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1391 [August 20 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:76864 Archived-At: > I'm surprised that you think having it blink from one state to > another every 5 seconds makes it easier to absorb... > > The text that changes is not that big, and I would expect people to > take it in in 5 seconds. > > But maybe people whose native language is not English would have > trouble. Is that it? Yes, and it takes time not only to read the text, but also understand it and memorize information in the new program for beginners. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/