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: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:57:48 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <874piaujgz.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87bqd744yp.fsf@jurta.org> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188947499 13775 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 23:11:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 23:11:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 05 01:11:38 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 1IShYT-0002vf-Eb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:11:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IShYR-0001Sj-Mm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:11:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IShXH-00087T-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IShXG-00084i-5N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:10:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IShXF-00084J-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:10:17 -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 1IShX8-0003de-AE; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 19:10:10 -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 1IShWx-000Gab-Ga; Wed, 05 Sep 2007 02:10:07 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 04 Sep 2007 12\:45\:28 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: 5389b9e13478507b5d7b23e4ed053241 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 1433 [September 4 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:77798 Archived-At: > We already decided to remove the help commands from About, thus > shortening it and reducing it to one screen. > > I agree that the Help commands are useless on the About screen (that are > useful only for the Startup screen). So after removing them we'll have > more free space for other information. > > Would you like to implement the change that we previously agreed on? > (I thought it had been implemented at the time.) Done. Now it's time to think about what to put on the About screen. As I said before, most programs usually put a short description of the program, how to contribute and report bugs, text of the licence and a list of authors/contributors. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/