From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan Mackenzie Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Exposing Isearch toggleable options Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 23:28:39 +0000 Message-ID: <20151105232839.GD2887@acm.fritz.box> References: <87wpu3x4p4.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <1bb5e765-6599-4076-b9c7-11b416a48db7@default> <87aa94f6-345b-4339-a444-6f3e712f00c5@default> <87twp1fg32.fsf@mail.linkov.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446766056 30188 80.91.229.3 (5 Nov 2015 23:27:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 23:27:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 06 00:27:16 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuTvw-0000Dg-SN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:27:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35910 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuTvv-0002SH-Nv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:27:07 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56792) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuTvf-0002Rr-Pu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:26:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuTvc-0001eh-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:26:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.muc.de ([193.149.48.3]:19853) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuTvc-0001eX-9x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Nov 2015 18:26:48 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 8707 invoked by uid 3782); 5 Nov 2015 23:26:46 -0000 Original-Received: from acm.muc.de (p5B1477AD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.20.119.173]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:26:45 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 9755 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Nov 2015 23:28:39 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 9.x X-Received-From: 193.149.48.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193355 Archived-At: Hello, Richard. On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 05:44:53PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > 2) I really don't think it'll be that distracting. On large screens > > it'll be over 100 spaces to the right of the search string. > Do people actually use Emacs with windows so wide? > My screen is wide, but having more than 80 columns in Emacs would > be a screw, so I tell Emacs that the screen is 80 columns wide. My screen is 240 characters wide. It is great to be able to have two related buffers in side by side windows. And for long, tortuous functions, I use Follow Mode in three side by side windows, these being 79, 79, 80 characters wide. This allows me to view 195 consecutive lines of a buffer at once. This is on a Linux virtual terminal, on a 1920 x 1080 pixel screen. Sometimes, I wonder how I ever managed on my old restricted CRT monitor, which I think went to ~120 characters wide. > -- > Dr Richard Stallman > President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) > Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) > Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).