From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:14:47 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87bsaos1fl.fsf@orebokech.com> <200206072322.g57NMtK27277@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xbsam1tje.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <200206091518.g59FIuL00222@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 1023686316 8693 127.0.0.1 (10 Jun 2002 05:18:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 05:18:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: storm@cua.dk, romain@orebokech.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 17HHZc-0002G6-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:18:36 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17HHwI-0006K1-00 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:42:02 +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 17HHZB-00085x-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 01:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17HHY0-00084F-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 01:16:56 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 17HHXy-0001dF-00; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:16:54 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id 78B99A445B; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 07:14:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <200206091518.g59FIuL00222@aztec.santafe.edu> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:18:56 -0600 (MDT)") Original-Lines: 35 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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:4680 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4680 Richard Stallman writes: > A few people say they don't like it, but nobody has given any reasons. Two reasons were already mentioned: . Two lines take more space than one; this _is_ a serious issue of course at the beginning of a node we have a lot of vertical whitespace and vertically oversized lines. Now think about laptop users who cannot affort more than a 800x600 display: most of the time they will have to page down the first page of a node to get "real" info (esp. when they have done somethin like C-x 2 first). . For the innocent user the doubled text looks like an error (he will not know every line serves its own purpose) and once told about it he might think Emacs is strange... > People complained when it was not possible. IIRC, it was only one who complained. > In response, we made a special command for doing it, but hardly anyone > knows about that command so it is not a very good solution. Only an expert will have to know about this command; we can ask him to get familiar with it. Please, revert the behavior (and try to keep the 21.x series as consistent as possible). -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)