From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:36:54 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <871wd8817d.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87tzqv1sui.fsf@jurta.org> <87ir7bnm97.fsf@jurta.org> <87absl7sdo.fsf@jurta.org> <87tzqrt8ts.fsf@jurta.org> <87wsvjadfq.fsf@jurta.org> <87d4x9ewfz.fsf@jurta.org> <87fy1wn4ue.fsf@jurta.org> <87lkbn8jc8.fsf@jurta.org> <874piaujgz.fsf@jurta.org> <87veanu8t6.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189343863 25808 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2007 13:17:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:17:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 09 23:17:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IUTaL-0007NS-TU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 22:40:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUM5z-0008LQ-Hi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:40:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUM5O-0007cT-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:40:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IUM5M-0007aq-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:40:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IUM5M-0007af-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:40:20 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IUM5H-0003BE-60; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IUM57-000BgZ-9X; Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:40:13 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri\, 07 Sep 2007 02\:32\:06 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 8abf2c83e696415c40c55866f9369f42 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1448 [September 7 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78316 Archived-At: > The text-only no-mouse about screen says: > "To follow a link, click Mouse-1 on it, or move to it and type RET." > I think we should delete text "click Mouse-1 on it". > > I don't think it makes any difference. If you can't click, it tells > you the other method. But I don't object to making this change. > Please do it if you wish. I think we should remove the text: "To follow a link, click Mouse-1 on it, or move to it and type RET." It is useless. Most users already know how to follow a link, because everybody uses Web browsers nowadays. And this text wastes two valuable lines on the About screen. Instead of this, I propose adding a help-echo property to every link, which says what this link does. This is especially useful when the link leads to some URL. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/