From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs becoming Word? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:58:08 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20050325180531.GB16586@dionysus.ucolick.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111791837 14450 80.91.229.2 (25 Mar 2005 23:03:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 00:03:56 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DExpB-0004Pj-Tl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:02:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEy4l-0001aD-AF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEy3f-0001Q4-I7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:17:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DEy3R-0001JZ-0t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEy3Q-0001Fy-41 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:17:24 -0500 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DExkn-00064I-Mj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:58:09 -0500 Original-Received: from lab45.ma.utexas.edu (mail@lab45.ma.utexas.edu [128.83.133.159]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id j2PMw8C28628; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:58:08 -0600 Original-Received: from jcorneli by lab45.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DExkm-0001vm-00; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:58:08 -0600 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from David Kastrup on Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:29:27 +0100) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25165 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25165 I don't think that it tells you to do (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration '((tex-mode . 2) (latex-mode . 2) (t . t))) in order to have latex buffers look "normal", so I think that's one. The stuff about "undo" is in there, but seem to explain how to make the messages go away (and have undo information always discarded automatically, which is the best thing I can think of to do with it). These are perhaps the two most noticable changes to Emacs I've seen over recent months. At any rate, looking through the news file is kind of like looking for a needle in a haystack. It would be much nicer to have contextual help on new commands. Eg. the first time \pi turns into a greek symbol, or the first time that you get some message about undo buffers, something pops up -- maybe a talking paperclip, who knows, or a freakin' thumb-tack if the paperclip is off-limits! -- and tells you what's going on.