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[Orgmode] Re: Overlays and elisp code


From: Dan Davison
Subject: [Orgmode] Re: Overlays and elisp code
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:47:46 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (darwin)

Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:

> On Feb 1, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Dan Davison wrote:
>
>> Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> maybe just header in the default value to keep the echo area open for
>>> error messages?
>>
>> Absolutely. But if you prefer, we could just do away with the echo- 
>> area
>> message entirely. That would have the advantage of leaving the user
>> interface unchanged.
>>
>> With the default as '(header), my UI change only makes sense if we
>> believe that an appreciable number of users will disable the header
>> message and activate the echo-area message in its place.
>
> There are people who hate the header line IIRC.  But I guess you are
> right - once people are ready to remove the header line for this
> application, they will probably have memorized it.
>
> I remember that I started with the echo area and introduced the header
> line because people were asking how to get out of there, so I needed
> something more persistent.
>
> So I guess if the header line is the default, I'd be fine with
> removing the echo area message altogether.

I have done that, and removed my other patch from patchwork.

Dan


>
> - Carsten
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