From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87bsaos1fl.fsf@orebokech.com> <200206072322.g57NMtK27277@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xbsam1tje.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <87wut9tppe.fsf@orebokech.com> <200206101359.g5ADx7b28021@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200206101728.g5AHSjQ29188@rum.cs.yale.edu> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023794315 27408 127.0.0.1 (11 Jun 2002 11:18:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HjfX-00077x-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:18:35 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Hk2p-0004hh-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:42:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Hjf4-0005Ho-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:18:06 -0400 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Hjcb-000563-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:15:34 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Tue, 11 Jun 2002 11:15:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (message from Thien-Thi Nguyen on 10 Jun 2002 18:18:38 -0400) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4748 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4748 if we want to optimize for ease of sharing (not a bad goal, IMHO), my guess is the easiest way to share a mode-line-as-"link" would be a series of keystrokes that can be used to find that node. this: (fset 'help-me! [?\C-h ?i ?m ?e ?m ?a ?c ?s ?\C-m]) is more useful than File: emacs, Node: Top, Next: Distrib, Prev: (dir), Up: (dir) Whether it is more useful depends on your goal. If you are giving some keystrokes to someone who already knows and uses Info, then yes, this might be more useful, although I think the `Info-copy-current-node-name' for this, `(emacs)Top', is even more useful. But for my primary audience, this series of keystrokes fails; it is like a magic catenation that does the job, but you don't learn the physics. My audience need to learn that there is a `dir' file. They need to learn that you can go from the dir file to a specific Info file; and that in the Info file, you can go to a specific node. And they need to be inspired to do this. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com