From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info enhancements Date: 08 Dec 2003 19:29:01 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <878ylrbbk4.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312051426.hB5EQeZ11287@f7.net> <87ekvjuuj8.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <200312051802.hB5I2EC04476@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87d6b2iyec.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87brqkl3x2.fsf@mail.jurta.org> <87vfor62k9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070879746 14868 80.91.224.253 (8 Dec 2003 10:35:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 10:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , karl@freefriends.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 11:35:37 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATIjp-0006t3-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:35:37 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATIjo-0006bc-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:35:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATJg9-0006GN-OF for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 06:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATJcZ-0004qh-Rg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 06:32:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATJc0-0004Se-A7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 06:32:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [210.143.35.52] (helo=TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATJbw-0003rh-5N; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 06:31:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailgate3.nec.co.jp (mailgate53.nec.co.jp [10.7.69.192]) by TYO202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W01080315) with ESMTP id hB8AT6M13893; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:29:06 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: (from root@localhost) by mailgate3.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILGATE-NEC) id hB8AT5H07540; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:29:05 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from edtmg05.lsi.nec.co.jp ([10.26.17.202]) by mailsv4.nec.co.jp (8.11.7/3.7W-MAILSV4-NEC) with ESMTP id hB8AT4a09358; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:29:04 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by edtmg05.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.9.3p2+3.2W/3.7W_EDC_Ver.1.0) with ESMTP id TAA29456; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:29:04 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from localhost (mcspd15 [10.30.114.174]) by mcsss2.ucom.lsi.nec.co.jp (8.12.10/8.12.8/EDcg v2.01-mc/1046780839) with ESMTP id hB8AT17Q019937; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:29:03 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 68DC5100D8; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 19:29:01 +0900 (JST) Original-To: Juri Linkov System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <87vfor62k9.fsf@mail.jurta.org> Original-Lines: 19 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18546 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18546 Juri Linkov writes: > I still think that replacing a "note" with "see" has no sense because > if the user prefers to set the Info-hide-note-references to t this > means that he don't want to see any tags before the reference name. `See' makes perfect sense -- it makes the reference into (usually) correct english without drawing undue attention to itself, which is in keeping with the style of the documentation, whereas the *Note crap is just ugly obfuscation. > Since references are fontified in a different color the user can > already recognize a reference without an additional hint that > encourages him to follow this reference. [Doesn't work too well on non-color displays, and yes those exist.] -Miles -- Ich bin ein Virus. Mach' mit und kopiere mich in Deine .signature.