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From: Miles Bader <snogglethorpe@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible change to startup.el
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 04:05:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc339e4a05032411054268238f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DEPuV-0000Dk-00@surf.glug.org>

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:49:55 +0100, Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@surf.glug.org> wrote:
> three approaches come to mind:
> 
> (a) title on first line in file, ending w/ fullstop (period);
...
> lastly, (a) is straightforward (less prone to botch-ups).  i do
> not like it for esthetic reasons only.  same thinking applies for
> any fixed-position approach.

I'm confused as to why you don't like (a)...

The current tutorial files don't have a title at all, they start with
a chatty sentence saying "This is the super friendly Emacs tutorial!"

I think it would be quite nice to just add a real title before that,
and use that for the description string; it wouldn't have the
maintenance problems (or the "adding yet more reams of cruft to etc"
problem) of the other approaches.

E.g, change them to start something like:

                     Emacs Tutorial

    This is the super friendly Emacs Tutorial!
     ....etc....

-Miles
-- 
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-24 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-24 10:49 Possible change to startup.el Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-24 19:05 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2005-03-25  6:43 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-03 10:31 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-04-07  6:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-08  3:22   ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-08  6:31     ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-04-08  7:27       ` Kenichi Handa
2005-04-08 18:32       ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-08 18:43         ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-04-10  1:54         ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-08 10:44     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-08 18:32       ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-09  8:00         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-13 23:58           ` David Kastrup
2005-04-14  4:02             ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14  9:46               ` David Kastrup
2005-04-15  8:15                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14 19:03             ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-14 23:40               ` David Kastrup
2005-04-17  1:49                 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17  9:31                   ` David Kastrup
2005-04-17 19:20                     ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17 19:51                       ` David Kastrup
2005-04-10  1:54         ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 12:01 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 12:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-31 13:43   ` David Kastrup
2005-03-31 22:19     ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-01  4:10   ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-01  4:03 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-03  5:20   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 11:37 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 12:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 13:32   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 14:29     ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 16:15       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 22:23         ` Miles Bader
2005-04-01  4:10   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-30 22:47 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30 23:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-01  4:11   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31  1:40 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31  1:02   ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-31  3:20     ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31  2:21       ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-31  6:59 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-01  4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-25 18:07 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-27  3:52 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-27 23:15   ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-28 22:53     ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-29 20:19       ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30  4:08         ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-30  9:42           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-21 18:44 David Kastrup
2005-03-21 20:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-21 21:10   ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 21:25     ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-21 22:14       ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22  0:03         ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-22  1:38         ` David Hansen
2005-03-23 18:25         ` James Cloos
2005-03-27  3:53           ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22  4:55   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22  6:24     ` Miles Bader
2005-03-22  8:15       ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-22  8:27         ` Miles Bader
2005-03-22 10:40           ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 12:44             ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-22 20:31             ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-03-22 11:23           ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-22 12:33           ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-22 19:32       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 10:18     ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 19:34       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 22:24         ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 20:44   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 22:32     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-23  6:21       ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 13:55         ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-23 18:01           ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-03-25 12:51             ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-23 20:25           ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 13:57 ` Richard Stallman

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