The defaults for Info

[Gavin Smith]

There are a few options for Info that can be configured.

One that exists now is the styles for cross-references. Does anyone
have any feelings about what the defaults should be? Should it be no
style at all, as it is currently? My feeling is that there shouldn't
be colour by default, as colours can differ according to taste or user
setup (for example, dark blue text on a black background is hard to
read), but I'm more positive on the idea of underlining
cross-references. I think it's sometimes hard to distinguish
cross-references from surrounding text.

Same question for search highlights, I would always want search
highlighting on for myself, and I don't know why anyone wouldn't, but
maybe I'm ignorant. Maybe someone thinks reverse video is ugly?

It's not possible at the moment, but it may become an option to turn
off the header line, independently of the hide-note-references
variable (which sometimes hides "*note" text). The header line is a
problem because it's very common for it to spill across two lines,
which is ugly:

File: hello.info,  Node: Invoking hello,  Next: Reporting bugs,  Prev: Sample o\
utput,  Up: Top

Some people might like seeing what nodes are next and previous, but
should it be displayed by default?

Another use for the header line is for incredibly slow network
connections, when someone can see the screen being updated in real
time, and they have to give more conscious attention to navigation so
they don't waste time navigating to the wrong place, and as soon as
"File: hello.info" appears on the first line of their screen, they
know they're in the right place (the status line is only updated after
the rest of the screen has been updated). I've only experienced this
in simulated conditions. (Incidentally the first thing output, after
clearing the screen, is "Welcome to Info".)

"*Note" hiding with hide-note-references: probably off by default,
because it's not possible to detect reliably whether a "See" or "see"
should be displayed or not, and it disturbs the filling of the text.