From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The splash screens Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:17:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed0708170358u3779fcebj2be02c03ebf1ac55@mail.gmail.com> <871we1olkn.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0708190857p7f6b6700wb61753e0ee889c9a@mail.gmail.com> <87r6lzv2cr.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187623082 12312 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2007 15:18:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:18:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, mathias.dahl@gmail.com To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 17:18:00 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 1IN90r-0000SD-MA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:17:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IN90o-0007Jn-Av for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:17:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IN8wE-0001Mq-M3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IN8wE-0001M0-4H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IN8wD-0001Lp-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:13:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IN8wD-0007ob-76 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:13:05 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IN907-0001VO-1K; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:17:07 -0400 In-reply-to: <87r6lzv2cr.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:52:20 +0300) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:76838 Archived-At: > 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.