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Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer |
Date: |
10 Jun 2002 01:38:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> As I read the comments, the new behaviour with two
> almost identical header lines was a change to the worse.
>
> Why do you think so? A few people say they don't like it,
A few? The majority of those who commented on this dislike it:
David Ponce started by reporting the duplicate header line as a bug.
You responded that it was deliberate.
Stefan, Eli and Miles spoke against it (or at least suggested
various methods for hiding it or making it optional).
Francoise Romain send you a patch to implement Miles' suggestion.
I also spoke against it and sent a different proposal
(adding `+' to toggle the visibility of the extra header line).
Alex Schroeder said he doesn't need it either.
> but nobody has given any reasons.
I think Eli gives the reason very clearly:
It looks like a display bug.
.. and it has already been reported as such a few days after it was
change in CVS. So imagine the number of bug reports we'll get when
21.4 is released...
>
> It never occurred to me that copying part of the header would
> be useful
>
> People complained when it was not possible. In response, we made a
> special command for doing it, but hardly anyone knows about that
> command so it is not a very good solution.
That "hardly anyone knows about that command" is hardly a good
argument to introduce a "display bug"...
The command is right there on the Info menu.
Only Robert J. Chassell seems to really need to copy from the header
lines regularly -- and to be able to do that, he already knows that
setting Info-use-header-line to nil allows him to do that.
Can't we simply put that advice into NEWS or PROBLEMS or mention it
somewhere in info's doc string or its info file -- and remove the
extra header line.
In any case, I think it is a good idea to add a mouse-3 sub-menu/command
to header-lines and mode-lines to copy its contents to the kill-ring.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, (continued)
- Patch for emacs-lisp-intro.texi, Christian Egli, 2002/06/17
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/11
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kim F. Storm, 2002/06/09
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/10
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/10
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/09
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Kai Großjohann, 2002/06/09
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/10
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Karl Eichwalder, 2002/06/10
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Miles Bader, 2002/06/10
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/10
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Miles Bader, 2002/06/10
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/06/11
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Miles Bader, 2002/06/11
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/06/11
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Richard Stallman, 2002/06/11
- Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer, Robert J. Chassell, 2002/06/12