Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode)

[Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík)]

   From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
   Date: Sun, 05 May 2002 19:15:15 -0400

Hi Stefan,

   > >    > 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.

   > As for the fringes, I would rather not advertise the ability to
   > remove them (to new users).

Well, but this was the most asked question just after releasing 21.1... So
users (and even novice users) wanted to remove it.
-- 
Pavel Janík

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