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Re: don't show the $-bar that indicates text before and/or after the win


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: don't show the $-bar that indicates text before and/or after the window view, horizontally
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 21:41:59 +0300

> From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:02:31 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> What you said was basically:
> >> 
> >> "You should read, and as you don't even understand A, you
> >> shouldn't mess with B, that's too advanced." (pseudo-quote, but
> >> that's what you said)
> >
> > I said nothing of the kind.  What I said was basically "It's
> > quite clear that you don't understand the issues discussed here,
> > so I suggest to go read about that, and then you'd probably
> > understand much better the solutions proposed to you."
> 
> I don't believe that. I think my summary is much more
> accurate.

I've told you what I meant.  No one else can know that better than I
do.

> But - even what you write now: apart from some confusion regarding
> TTY/X terminal Emacs vs. X GUI Emacs, my understanding grew by the
> post - which is natural - and how could it be in any other way? If
> the person asking a question already understood everything about
> it, why ask?

I didn't say you shouldn't ask.  I answered your questions.

What I'm saying is that there's a limit to what can be explained in a
message posted to a forum.  The manual has much more.  You'd rob
yourself if you limit your learning to what people say here, even if
we assume, wrongly, that no one of them is ever mistaken.  Not only
will you learn more from the documentation, your questions will become
deeper, more sophisticated, and more interesting to answer.

It's your call.



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