From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>,
Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>, storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm),
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode)
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 18:33:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilur8knape8.fsf@extundo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3it60t1c7.fsf@Janik.cz> (Pavel@Janik.cz's message of "Tue, 07 May 2002 17:38:32 +0200")
Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík) writes:
> > > > i imagine arrows dancing around the screen, some question like "these
> > > > are fringes -- do you belong to the minimalist school of thought; i.e.,
> > >
> > > I think that we miss a chapter with this in the manual...
> >
> > If you're talking about the dancing arrows, I might agree, although
> > I'd point out that we also miss the corresponding implementation.
>
> ;-) No, I was not talking about dancing arrows. I often found that many
> people find the Emacs terminology confusing. They do read (emacs)Glossary,
> (emacs)Screen but they would like to see pictures. One picture is more then
> ten pages of text. I have spent one "lesson" with my users to describe them
> the difference between mode-line and echo area and window/buffer, you know.
Texinfo supports images, but does the Info format? I agree it would
be very useful if documentation could include screenshots.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-07 16:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-30 21:19 Reveal mode Richard Stallman
2002-05-01 20:30 ` Pavel Janík
2002-05-01 23:34 ` Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Kim F. Storm
2002-05-02 5:16 ` Enhancements to options menu Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-02 11:39 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-05-02 20:20 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-02 23:48 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-03 18:25 ` Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode) Richard Stallman
2002-05-03 23:54 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-04 0:39 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-04 8:58 ` Pavel Janík
2002-05-05 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-07 15:38 ` Pavel Janík
2002-05-07 16:33 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2002-05-07 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-07 19:11 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-08 0:27 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-08 2:51 ` Colin Walters
2002-05-08 3:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-08 16:10 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-08 4:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 11:24 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-05-08 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 13:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-08 13:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 14:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-08 14:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 15:28 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-08 15:43 ` Alan Shutko
2002-05-12 5:26 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-12 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 15:46 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-08 16:31 ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-08 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 15:27 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-08 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-09 14:59 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-09 16:53 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-09 17:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-09 18:26 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-05-09 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 14:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-08 15:31 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-08 15:55 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-07 23:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-08 6:03 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-08 13:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-08 13:59 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-04 9:32 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-04 15:01 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-04 18:44 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-05 17:45 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-05 22:24 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-06 4:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-06 6:30 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-06 9:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-06 19:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-06 19:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-06 23:12 ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-07 20:07 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-07 18:30 Karl Berry
2002-05-07 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-08 17:11 Karl Berry
2002-05-08 17:19 ` Alan Shutko
2002-05-08 17:27 Karl Berry
2002-05-08 17:40 ` Miles Bader
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