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: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:46:19 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87lkbn8jc8.fsf@jurta.org> References: <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> <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> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188865053 22284 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 00:17:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 00:17:33 +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 Tue Sep 04 02:17:32 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 1ISM6l-0004uB-Hv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:17:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISM6k-0001R2-1S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:17:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISM65-0000dh-ON for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ISM64-0000c5-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISM63-0000bw-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:16:47 -0400 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ISM5s-0001b9-07; Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:16:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1ISM5U-000KTk-W7; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:16:21 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 03 Sep 2007 14\:25\:39 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: d0b3bc0b24c4067239780ad28ae5b444 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 1428 [September 3 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:77697 Archived-At: > As many programs usually contain 4 pages on the About screen: "Authors", > "Licence", "Report Bug" and "How to Contribute", Emacs could do the same > even without using Info files (which are not always available). > > I don't mind having those four, but our current About display > has other things in it too, and I don't want to just discard them. In the previous message you said: 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. > There are 4 files in the root directory of the Emacs tree that exactly > correspond to these 4 pages: AUTHORS, COPYING, BUGS and CONTRIBUTE. > > I am not sure that all 4 of those are the right way to handle these > 4 commands. All these files contain information that most programs usually put on the About screen. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/