From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info enhancements Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:48:31 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200312070059.hB70xfF02497@f7.net> <9681-Sun07Dec2003074722+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> <200312071342.hB7Dgx811013@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87ptez38o7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071007038 28980 80.91.224.253 (9 Dec 2003 21:57:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:57:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 22:57:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATpqx-0002kE-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:57:11 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATpqx-0001Aq-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:57:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATql5-0003PV-BF for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:55:11 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATqiX-00025B-63 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:52:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATqgw-0000yx-0c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:51:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATqgv-0000yd-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:50:53 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1ATpiZ-0000BW-5E; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:48:31 -0500 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <87ptez38o7.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:28:40 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18582 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18582 I like the Info-hide-note-references feature very much but I agree that it might be a bit confusing for unaware users. The feature will not be much use if it is off by default. If we conclude that we must leave it off by default, in effect we are concluding it is a failure. Perhaps we must reach that conclusion, but we should not mislead ourselves about what the conclusion means.