From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:29:15 -0400 Message-ID: <8t8x87vszo.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <87fy2oms2y.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl6o3rj1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> <87bqd744yp.fsf@jurta.org> <7dbe73ed0708190830r22e7595dh83314f3b71125cae@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187576729 7303 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2007 02:25:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:25:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, Mathias Dahl To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 04:25:26 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 1IMwxH-00008Q-BP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:25:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMwxG-0003lP-8s for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMwxD-0003l4-MR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:25:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMwxB-0003jn-Hv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMwxB-0003jk-Fz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMwxB-0004Ya-Ez for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:25:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMx11-0004qq-SI; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:29:15 -0400 X-Spook: David John Oates EuroFed encryption JFK Glock airframe X-Ran: ;eM$[DSpW9?:nh=1sLv2UJJB/C6>f=Q[DgXnP8T{63{OXf:PLz24$\&=wf!W$ca|K3a@q> X-Hue: magenta X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:30:58 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:76798 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > On a graphical terminal, the limit on the text is not the screen size. > The limit is the amount that a user can really absorb, which is less > than a screen full of text. Against this limit, the image counts as > less than a line of text. I'm surprised that you think having it blink from one state to another every 5 seconds makes it easier to absorb... 20 lines of static text are much much easier to read than an image + 10 changing lines, IMO.