From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Paul R'" <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>, "'Ian Eure'" <ian@digg.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: emacs mode line suggestions
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:45:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006501c948cb$7b217140$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y6ziu4rm.fsf@gmail.com>
> 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.
There is a mailing list for discussions of the suitability of the existing Emacs
behavior and possible improvements: emacs-devel@gnu.org. Discussing such things
(Emacs could, would, should) here is generally OT (IIUC).
A help topic could of course evolve toward discussion of possible Emacs changes.
When that happens, you can always divert it to emacs-devel, letting everyone
here know. AFAICT, this thread did not evolve into such a discussion; it started
out that way. It's time to move it where it belongs, I think.
I don't mean to single out Paul's latest message or even just this thread. The
text quoted above from Paul's message serves only as an illustration of the kind
of thing that is now being discussed here.
Let's help users by not diluting the help Q&A here. Please bring your
suggestions for changing Emacs to emacs-devel, where they are appropriate.
From http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs:
This list is the place for users and installers of GNU Emacs
to ask for help. Please send bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs
instead of posting them here.
Since help-gnu-emacs is a very large list, send it only those
items that are seriously important to many people.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-17 15:45 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 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.604.1226937124.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-11-17 16:11 ` Richard Riley
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='006501c948cb$7b217140$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com' \
--to=drew.adams@oracle.com \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=ian@digg.com \
--cc=paul.r.ml@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.