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Re: The splash screens


From: Juri Linkov
Subject: Re: The splash screens
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:52:20 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux)

>> Actually there are three different startup (and About) screens:
>>
>> 1. for graphic displays
>> 2. for terminals with mouse available
>> 3. for terminals without mouse
>>
>> There are no bindings printed if the user can select menu items
>> using the mouse.
>
> I think this is bad. I have a mouse and use it for "mousy" things, but
> Emacs is very keyboard centric, so why not always display the
> bindings?

I'm afraid there is no place to print key bindings on mouse-enabled screens.

> Are we the only ones that have an opinion on this? :) Or, is maybe the
> focus on these things in the never ending *scratch*-thread?

Yep, much of the discussion is on the annoying scratch buffer thread.
I mean "annoying scratch buffer", not "annoying thread" :-)

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/




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