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From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs mode line suggestions
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:11:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gfs53m$it1$7@news.motzarella.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.604.1226937124.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> current behaviour is clearly confusing and suboptimal.
>> Maybe buffers lack a :user or a :system flag that would be set
>> automatically or by the producer,...
>> 
>> The effort could be joined with the one mentionned on emacs devel few
>> months ago to give emacs enought facilities to propose "workspaces"....
>>
>> We can imagine...
>> 
>> ... is a terrible default usability choice
>
> C'mon guys. This is help-gnu-emacs. It's for getting help about using
> Emacs.

But it should not be too disturbing to gauge Emacs user's views on
certain issues. The nature of a Help group often means there are more
new users and new users are often a catalyst for new and good ideas. Any
half decent news reader features thread kill and keeping most in one or
two threads is not disrupting. In addition discussion threads on
functionality are often educational - many such threads have taught me
new things about how and why things are in Emacs.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17 16:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.215.1226562978.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-14 23:18 ` emacs mode line suggestions Xah
2008-11-15  1:02   ` xahlee
2008-11-15  9:23   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]   ` <mailman.423.1226741023.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16  1:54     ` Xah
2008-11-16 18:12       ` Ian Eure
2008-11-18  9:39         ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-18 23:25           ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]       ` <mailman.518.1226859137.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 18:20         ` Richard Riley
2008-11-16 23:12           ` Ian Eure
2008-11-17  8:37             ` Paul R
2008-11-17 15:45               ` Drew Adams
     [not found]               ` <mailman.604.1226937124.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 16:11                 ` Richard Riley [this message]
2008-11-17 18:53                   ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 19:10                     ` Richard Riley
2008-11-17 19:57                       ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 20:53                       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.621.1226951870.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 21:42                         ` Richard Riley
2008-11-18  0:55                           ` Drew Adams
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.641.1226969742.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-18  1:08                             ` Richard Riley
2008-11-18  2:55                               ` Drew Adams
2008-11-17 23:37               ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-18  7:52                 ` Paul R
2008-11-18 13:48                   ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]           ` <mailman.543.1226877138.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 23:35             ` Richard Riley
2008-11-16 22:45         ` Xah
2008-11-16 21:40       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]       ` <mailman.536.1226871605.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-16 23:17         ` Xah
2008-11-17 20:39           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-17 23:46             ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-18  0:31               ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-18  9:32               ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-11-18  9:58                 ` Alan Mackenzie
     [not found]             ` <mailman.633.1226964831.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-18  9:46               ` Fabrice Niessen
     [not found]           ` <mailman.623.1226954396.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 22:09             ` Xah
2008-11-18  2:33               ` B. T. Raven
2008-11-18  3:24                 ` Xah
2008-11-18  4:58                   ` B. T. Raven
2008-11-18  6:54                     ` Richard Riley
2008-11-18  4:11               ` Eli Zaretskii

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