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Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:34:15 -0400 |
Did someone look lately at how we display Info menus on text-mode
terminals? For example, type "C-h i d m elisp RET".
I think this is ugly, especially the way the long descriptions are
wrapped. Here's one example, indented by my by 4 characters (I also
capitalized the menu entry name, since in Emacs it stands out in
color):
We were discussing this a month or so ago, trying to figure out how to
avoid a bunch of different problems. I think that one very general
refilling mechanism is applied to the entire Info file, and that it
uses heuristics to find the paragraph breaks that should be
maintained.
I think it does not handle menu items specially, but that might not be
hard to do. You can notice the * Menu: that starts a menu, and then
do special handling on each paragraph that starts a menu item. Once
you detect that the paragraph is a menu item, I think it won't be very
hard to implement a better behavior in that case.
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, (continued)
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/09/27
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/09/27
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/09/28
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Gerd Moellmann, 2003/09/28
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/28
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/09/29
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Gerd Moellmann, 2003/09/29
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, David Kastrup, 2003/09/29
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/28
Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/09/27
Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/09/28
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/09/28
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Miles Bader, 2003/09/28
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/09/28
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Miles Bader, 2003/09/28
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2003/09/29
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/30
- Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Gerd Moellmann, 2003/09/30
Re: Info menus on text-mode terminals, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/29