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Re: Scratch buffer annoyance
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Scratch buffer annoyance |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:01:47 +0300 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> If not using an Info file and not using automatically alternating
> screens,
> I see no better UI than clicking on tabs to switch between screens.
> This is how many programs display information on the About page.
>
> Is this acceptable?
>
> The problem it is solving is obsolete. We already decided to remove
> the help commands from About, thus shortening it and reducing it to
> one screen.
As many programs usually contain 4 pages on the About screen: "Authors",
"Licence", "Report Bug" and "How to Contribute", Emacs could do the same
even without using Info files (which are not always available).
There are 4 files in the root directory of the Emacs tree that exactly
correspond to these 4 pages: AUTHORS, COPYING, BUGS and CONTRIBUTE.
On the About screen we could add 4 links to these files clicking on which
will open the file in another window (using `find-file-other-window').
Unfortunately, it seems that these files don't always get into Emacs
distributions. At least, I can't find them on Debian. Maybe this
is because these files are not in the etc directory. What about
moving/copying them to etc where they can be found by `data-directory'?
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/04
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- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/07
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