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Re: Scratch buffer annoyance
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Scratch buffer annoyance |
Date: |
Tue, 24 Jul 2007 00:45:11 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> This requires some related modifications: the startup
> screen should be static because when the user want to clink on a link, it
> shouldn't disappear just before clicking on it when it happens to be at
> the same time as to show the next splash screen. This would be annoying.
>
> I agree. However, part of the reason why there are two fancy splash
> screens is to present more information than will fit comfortably in
> one. If we don't use the current solution (switching between two
> splash screens), we need another solution.
With the patch it displays both screens on one. The second screen was just
4 additional lines, so information fits perfectly on one screen.
> Another necessary change is to allow point movements commands in the
> startup splash screen to be able to move point to the link and type RET to
> activate it. Currently, any key causes the splash screen to exit, and
> this
> key is applied to the underlying buffer.
>
> Obviously part of this change is that that won't happen any more.
OK, so this is a good change.
> The following patch adds a keymap common to the startup splash screen and
> the About screen with keys `q' and SPC to quit from them.
>
> I don't understand -- what does it mean to "quit" from the splash
> screen?
"quit" means to kill the buffer with the splash screen.
> This patch doesn't contain more necessary changes because including them
> in one patch would create a mess. A separate patch later will add more
> links to the startup screen and to normal-splash-screen, revert changes to
> save *scratch* buffer, and add a new option `visit-on-startup'.
>
> In this one case, I think we want to see all the patches put together.
> The reason is that I am not ready, now, to decide to take this route.
> I might choose it once I see it in its mature form.
>
> In other words, it is needful to develop the mature form and present
> the combined patch.
I'll present the combined patch after an agreement on a new
customizable option. Is it OK to add `visit-on-startup'?
Should it obsolete `inhibit-splash-screen'?
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- RE: Scratch buffer annoyance, (continued)
- RE: Scratch buffer annoyance, Drew Adams, 2007/07/21
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/21
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/22
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/22
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/23
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/21
- RE: Scratch buffer annoyance, Drew Adams, 2007/07/22
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/23
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/21
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/23
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- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/24
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/24
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/25
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/27
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/27
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/28
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Juri Linkov, 2007/07/29
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, David Kastrup, 2007/07/29
- RE: Scratch buffer annoyance, Drew Adams, 2007/07/29
- Re: Scratch buffer annoyance, Richard Stallman, 2007/07/30