From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mathias.dahl@gmail.com
Subject: Re: The splash screens
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:17:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1IN907-0001VO-1K@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r6lzv2cr.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:52:20 +0300)
> I think this is bad. I have a mouse and use it for "mousy" things, but
> Emacs is very keyboard centric, so why not always display the
> bindings?
I'm afraid there is no place to print key bindings on mouse-enabled screens.
The purpose of the startup screen is to give basic info to beginners.
I decided that the most useful thing to tell them about is mouse
usage. That's why the fancy startup screen doesn't list key bindings.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-20 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-17 10:58 The splash screens Mathias Dahl
2007-08-17 22:34 ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-19 15:57 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-08-19 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-20 15:17 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-08-20 8:23 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-08-20 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-21 9:03 ` Mathias Dahl
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