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describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying |
Date: |
04 May 2004 13:05:09 +0900 |
Am I the only one who's annoyed by the way describe-mode now displays
minor modes?
It fills up the beginning of the buffer with notes about a zillion minor
modes, most of which I don't care about, and which almost always manage
to push the major mode description (which I usually _do_ care about)
entirely off the screen?
For instance, here's what it showed when I did `C-h m' in my
message-sending buffer:
Summary of minor modes:
Abbrev minor mode (indicator Abbrev):
Auto Fill minor mode (indicator Fill):
Auto-Compression minor mode (no indicator):
Auto-Image-File minor mode (no indicator):
Display-Time minor mode (no indicator):
File-Name-Shadow minor mode (no indicator):
Font-Lock minor mode (no indicator):
Global-Font-Lock minor mode (no indicator):
Line-Number minor mode (no indicator):
Minibuffer-Electric-Default minor mode (no indicator):
Mouse-Wheel minor mode (no indicator):
Recentf minor mode (no indicator):
Temp-Buffer-Resize minor mode (no indicator):
Transient-Mark minor mode (no indicator):
Unify-8859-On-Encoding minor mode (no indicator):
Utf-Translate-Cjk minor mode (no indicator):
(Full information about these minor modes
follows the description of the major mode.)
Message mode:
....
I think all that should be moved to _after_ the major mode description,
with a single-line hyper link at the beginning of the buffer that jumps
there.
E.g., make the layout something like:
(Information on [minor modes] comes after the major mode description)
Message mode:
....long major mode description....
^L
Summary of minor modes in this buffer:
[Abbrev minor mode] (indicator Abbrev):
[Auto Fill minor mode] (indicator Fill):
[Auto-Compression minor mode] (no indicator):
...
^L
Abbrev minor mode (indicator Abbrev):
Toggle abbrev mode.
With argument ARG, turn abbrev mode on iff ARG is positive.
...
^L
...
where bracketed phrases [...] indicate hyperlinks.
Thanks,
-Miles
--
"Though they may have different meanings, the cries of 'Yeeeee-haw!' and
'Allahu akbar!' are, in spirit, not actually all that different."
- describe-mode's treatment of minor-modes is annoying,
Miles Bader <=