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Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode)


From: Simon Josefsson
Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu (was Re: Reveal mode)
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 18:33:51 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

address@hidden (Pavel Janík) writes:

>    > >    > i imagine arrows dancing around the screen, some question like 
> "these
>    > >    > are fringes -- do you belong to the minimalist school of thought; 
> i.e.,
>    > > 
>    > > I think that we miss a chapter with this in the manual...
>    > 
>    > If you're talking about the dancing arrows, I might agree, although
>    > I'd point out that we also miss the corresponding implementation.
>
> ;-) No, I was not talking about dancing arrows. I often found that many
> people find the Emacs terminology confusing. They do read (emacs)Glossary,
> (emacs)Screen but they would like to see pictures. One picture is more then
> ten pages of text. I have spent one "lesson" with my users to describe them
> the difference between mode-line and echo area and window/buffer, you know.

Texinfo supports images, but does the Info format?  I agree it would
be very useful if documentation could include screenshots.




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