From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 11:42:32 +0300 Organization: JURTA Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87isfaaqwx.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083833721 29303 80.91.224.253 (6 May 2004 08:55:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 08:55:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: miles@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 10:55:11 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLeet-0008DK-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 10:55:11 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BLees-0001p3-00 for ; Thu, 06 May 2004 10:55:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLeZA-0002r8-FE for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 04:49:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLeY7-0002cs-RD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 04:48:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1BLeXU-0002Qd-Sg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 May 2004 04:48:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.33.219.19] (helo=spoon.dreamhost.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BLeXU-0002QA-Du; Thu, 06 May 2004 04:47:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.jurta.org (80-235-39-194-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.39.194]) by spoon.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B530013D841; Thu, 6 May 2004 01:47:28 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Wed, 5 May 2004 13:32:41 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:22836 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:22836 "Drew Adams" writes: > I too think the minor (and major!) mode info was not very visible - because > everything was visible together, separated only by ^L. And not very easy to > use, because users needed to know about C-]. > > Even a horizontal bar (a la
in HTML) would be a better separator > visually than ^L. For better visual separation, a buffer-local variable `buffer-display-table' could be modified in the Help buffer as below: (aset buffer-display-table ?\f (vconcat (make-vector (window-width) ?-) "^L")) It displays a horizontal bar, but still allows to move between pages by C-x ]. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/