From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, miles@gnu.org
Subject: RE: describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 13:32:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FDELKNEBLPKKDCEBEJCBEEENCEAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BLSsy-0004zW-AJ@fencepost.gnu.org>
Yes, I checked it in vanilla (GNU) Emacs 20.7 (emacs -q).
The major mode is described first.
For minor modes, see following pages.
So users knew the minor mode info was there, and they saw the major mode
info first.
> If you've checked this, you're surely correct. But I remember that the
> minor mode info was not very visible, and not easy to use. That was
> the reason for the change.
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 <HR> in HTML) would be a better separator
visually than ^L.
- Drew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-05 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-04 4:05 describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying Miles Bader
2004-05-04 8:21 ` Juanma Barranquero
2004-05-04 11:53 ` Romain Francoise
2004-05-04 13:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-04 14:05 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-04 14:38 ` Romain Francoise
2004-05-04 20:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-04 20:58 ` Drew Adams
2004-05-04 21:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-04 22:35 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-05 20:20 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-05 20:32 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2004-05-06 8:42 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-04 22:28 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-05 20:21 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-05 22:06 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-06 11:49 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-06 13:52 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-06 16:40 ` Peter Whaite
2004-05-07 12:09 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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