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: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:23:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hcndc3zc.fsf@jurta.org> <87643pbqjq.fsf@jurta.org> <85643ppor9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sl6sbjaw.fsf@jurta.org> <87fy2oms2y.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl6o3rj1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> <87bqd744yp.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzqv1sui.fsf@jurta.org> <87ir7bnm97.fsf@jurta.org> <87absl7sdo.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 1187738391 9355 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2007 23:19:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:19:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 22 01:19:49 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 1INd0m-00060J-3I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:19:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INd0l-00082i-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INd0Y-0007yD-PP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INd0U-0007wb-Pi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INd0U-0007wV-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INd0U-0000tB-Bs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:19:30 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INd4U-00019c-Oo; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:23:38 -0400 In-reply-to: <87absl7sdo.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:28:35 +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:76916 Archived-At: > If not, then we could delete the help from About Emacs and focus on > history, developer and license information. I agree. Most programs have About screens with information like program version, its short description, license (on a separate page), credits (usually displayed as a scrolling list like in the movies), history, and so on. Would you please implement that?