From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-28 6170c50: Fix regression in help-mode prompt Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 16:28:24 +0200 Message-ID: <8335mvl0qf.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20211213135228.14462.36839@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20211213135230.17FE620A0A@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <83h7bbl4el.fsf@gnu.org> <87y24n5lqm.fsf@rub.de> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29394"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: stefankangas@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 14 15:29:23 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mx8ny-0007PZ-Vt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:29:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52786 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mx8nx-0008ME-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:29:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:40070) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mx8n9-0007ca-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:28:31 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=40732 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mx8n8-0004sl-9n; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:28:31 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=RdcKWSlTD14Kf3wR9chhU+AJcESiqNcFuPRtEUZh3eY=; b=EdCmpU6gLjOl sL1fu0mQvHrBirvJL6AB83zjaFjmXu39Caj9ill1B36X3BSOWrCneIYQD+D1KBmZhx/CTkkq33s2P XqMG9g6FR+7AQI/n7VVnKmOUitiQiTsvct8RJz66GxMobDUSRJVLP9DHFaijbb6b0wKiOo1nM/KW/ XmhheLYz7z48iva1KVw3lVmvR8+Y8IdiGfD/q1oQ7IsXGGK0rDlwg4Kv+PlEvsN8iR52/Xihkb+OH QtjFQ7NcX1sbcK6ZQV5QJ9nK63qsOrCXWRZvmPaLVMOsRcJAy8LQ42P+ucd+nECtSjQSX7AL08DP1 aTgaO9hNqM07boydzglz2Q==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=1302 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mx8n4-00087X-O4; Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:28:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87y24n5lqm.fsf@rub.de> (message from Stephen Berman on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:01:21 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:281903 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Berman > Cc: Stefan Kangas , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 15:01:21 +0100 > > > I didn't change the text to improve it, I changed it to make it > > shorter. Because otherwise, when we echo the keys typed by the user, > > they overflow the (default) window width, and that resizes the > > mini-window, which causes an unpleasant effect of scrolling the Help > > window. > > > > If you can suggest a different solution that avoids the resizing, > > please do. > > Is this about the *Metahelp* buffer displayed by typing `C-h ?'? Then I > think it's sufficient to prompt with "Type one of the options%s: ", > since the buffer containing the options is in plain view. Those options go out of view as soon as you scroll.