Re: Patch to disable links line in *info* buffer

[Kim F. Storm]

Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > However, in one respect it would not be better than the method we used
> > a week ago: it would always use a screen line for the header line.
> > If we want to save more screen space for the text, this will not do so.
> > For that we would have to eliminate the header line entirely.
> 
> The use of the header line for info links is one change in Emacs 21
> that has *not* attracted lots of complaints of wasted screen space.  I
> think most users consider that the usefulness of having navigation
> links always at the top of the info window outweighs the extra space
> used.

Yes, the typical reaction on the new "sticky" header line is: very nice!

> ... and work towards
> a longer term goal of making it possible to copy information from the
> header and mode lines.

I just added a new function `format-mode-line' to CVS emacs which
returns the current mode-line or header-line of the selected (or a
specified) window as a string [without properties].

So now you can copy them from lisp; next step is to make bindings to
do this.  [any volounteers?]

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk