From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Scratch buffer annoyance Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:44:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87odhqethv.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87zm18v7ug.fsf@jurta.org> <85abt7kck1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87hcndc3zc.fsf@jurta.org> <87643pbqjq.fsf@jurta.org> <85643ppor9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87sl6sbjaw.fsf@jurta.org> <87fy2oms2y.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl6o3rj1.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <873aykml2v.fsf@jurta.org> <87bqd744yp.fsf@jurta.org> <87ir7dlrhe.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187484096 18666 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2007 00:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:41:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rgm@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Juri Linkov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 19 02:41:34 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 1IMYrF-0000oJ-Fo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:41:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMYrH-0002B5-MC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:41:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMYqg-0001Hj-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:40:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMYqf-0001Fd-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:40:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMYqf-0001FR-1H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:40:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMYqc-0007vr-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:40:54 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMYuN-00058T-1B; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:44:47 -0400 In-reply-to: <87ir7dlrhe.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:35:09 +0300) 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:76729 Archived-At: The startup screen already contains information from two screens combined into one screen. We could do the same for the About screen. Is the only reason for flashing screens to make them more attractive? The main motive was to display a quantity of information that was hard to fit in one screen without its being "too much to absorb". It can also be too much to display on a terminal. For instance, after the recent changes, the default normal tty startup text doesn't fit in a 24-line screen. That is a real problem. How shall we make it fit on a 24-line screen?