Re: Red `*' in *info* menus?

[Michael Schierl <schierlm-usenet@gmx.de>]

J Krugman <jkrugman345@yahbitoo.com> writes:

> Every multiple of 5 would make sense, but the 5-th and the 9-th???
> That's so *weird* !!!  (Or there's a big-time Beethoven fan behind
> this code.)

Why? You can open entries 0 to 9 by numbers, so entry#9 should be
marked (so that you know that you can stop counting entries if you
want to jump to a "higher" one (but use either `m' or the cursor keys
to select). Marking "higher" entries is of no real use. According to
some studies, most humans are able to "count" up to 4 similar things
by just having a look at them and not really counting them¹ - so the
"8" undistinguisable items above are too many. So you have to mark
another entry as well. It seems that #5 was most intuitive.

BTW: I noticed that in the "beta" Emacs I use for Gnus here (because
it supports images), #3, #6 and #9 are marked... Dunno if that is the
same in current CVS versions.

Michael

¹ if you look at 4 stars quickly and then look somewhere else, most
peoply know that there have been 4 stars. If you look at 5 stars and
then somewhere else, most people are not sure if they were five or six
stars.