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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: bug#36478 <36478@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#36478: Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit?
Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 17:14:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlfx8ck2j.fsf-monnier+emacs__21718.9490374707$1562620907$gmane$org@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3lfx81dql.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Mon, 08 Jul 2019 22:18:58 +0200")

> I think Drew (or somebody?) mentioned this in a bug report the other
> day: The way the automated stuff is arranged in the *Help* buffer is
> perhaps not optimal.

>   This function has a compiler macro ‘internal--compiler-macro-cXXr’.
>   Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 20.
[...]
>   Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 1.2.
>   This function does not change global state, including the match data.
[...]
> So the thought here is that those indented lines isn't what's most
> interesting to the user.

I recently reworked the generation of this text specifically to try and
make it easier to tweak it.

> Anyway, what about rearranging this a bit so that the stuff the users
> are interested in comes first?
[...]
> Let the bike-shedding commence!

Here's my favorite color: 
- don't move it to the end, because it's much too far.
- hide it by default, with some obvious-enough button-like thingy to
  expand it on demand.
- maybe the first line could also be moved into this "metadata" block.
- These *Help* buffers would benefit from a bit of face-lift (e.g. put
  a different face on the metadata part, yet another on the
  calling-convention example, ...).


        Stefan






  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-07-08 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-08 20:18 Perhaps rearrange *Help* buffer a bit? Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-08 20:29 ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 20:31   ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2019-07-08 21:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-08 22:26   ` bug#36478: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-08 23:21     ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 23:30     ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-09 13:58       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09 14:18         ` Stefan Monnier
2019-07-10  3:58         ` Howard Melman
2019-07-10 11:27           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-10 12:59             ` Howard Melman
2019-07-10 14:06               ` Drew Adams
2019-07-08 21:24 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-08 22:38   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-09  0:02     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-07-09  0:59       ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2019-07-09  3:26         ` Eric Abrahamsen

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