From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert J. Chassell" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 22:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87bsaos1fl.fsf@orebokech.com> <200206072322.g57NMtK27277@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xbsam1tje.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <87wut9tppe.fsf@orebokech.com> Reply-To: bob@rattlesnake.com NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1023575625 18486 127.0.0.1 (8 Jun 2002 22:33:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 22:33:45 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17GomH-0004o3-00 for ; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 00:33:45 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Gp8L-0005nr-00 for ; Sun, 09 Jun 2002 00:56:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Golc-0007FL-00; Sat, 08 Jun 2002 18:33:04 -0400 Original-Received: from megalith.rattlesnake.com ([140.186.114.245] helo=localhost) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Goit-0006wv-00 for ; Sat, 08 Jun 2002 18:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: by rattlesnake.com via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) Sat, 8 Jun 2002 22:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87wut9tppe.fsf@orebokech.com> (message from Romain FRANCOISE on Sat, 08 Jun 2002 23:39:41 +0200) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4655 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4655 There are two orthogonal questions regarding the header/links lines in an *info* buffer: 1. Should Emacs Info use up extra space in an Info display by showing a second line, a line that many people dislike? 2. Should it be possible to copy the file name and node name of an Info file from a node seen in Info. >From the comments, many people are against # 1, either because screen space is valuable or because they dislike seeing a second line, or both. As for # 2: some people never seem to want to refer other people to Info nodes. They never tell people to RTFM, but I do. I set `Info-use-header-line' to `nil' in my .emacs file and copy the lines that tell people the file name and node name. (There is a command for this using the fancy header lines that exist by default, but I cannot remember it; I just copy the `non-header' line.) Evidentally, the new-styule `header lines' are constructed to be like mode lines, which cannot be copied and never have been able to be copied. (And I have never missed be unable to copy them.) However, since I often tell people to RTFM, I do copy the headers for Info nodes. -- Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com