From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer Date: 11 Jun 2002 21:01:50 +0100 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> <200206111925.g5BJPZh03612@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023827808 15048 127.0.0.1 (11 Jun 2002 20:36:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 20:36:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17HsNj-0003ub-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 22:36:47 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17HslC-0000eN-00 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 23:01:03 +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 17HsNA-0007Bn-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:36:12 -0400 Original-Received: from carbon.btinternet.com ([194.73.73.92] helo=carbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HsLZ-00071f-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:34:33 -0400 Original-Received: from host62-7-85-186.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([62.7.85.186] helo=nyaumo.btinternet.com) by carbon with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #8) id 17HsLX-0004YF-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:34:32 +0100 Original-Received: from nyaumo.btinternet.com (nyaumo.btinternet.com [127.0.0.1]) by nyaumo.btinternet.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD5954AE6D; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:01:50 +0100 (BST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200206111925.g5BJPZh03612@aztec.santafe.edu> Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 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:4764 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4764 Richard Stallman writes: > However, in one respect it would not be better than the method we used > a week ago: it would always use a screen line for the header line. > If we want to save more screen space for the text, this will not do so. > For that we would have to eliminate the header line entirely. The use of the header line for info links is one change in Emacs 21 that has *not* attracted lots of complaints of wasted screen space. I think most users consider that the usefulness of having navigation links always at the top of the info window outweighs the extra space used. Considering that we already have the variable Info-use-header-line to bring back the pre-21.1 behavior for those minority of users who want to copy the info header without learning a new command, I think the best thing to do is to restore the previous behavior, and work towards a longer term goal of making it possible to copy information from the header and mode lines. -- Jason Rumney