Re: The defaults for Info

[Karl Berry]

Since you ask ...

Personally, I detest all forms of terminal manipulation, be it reverse
video, underlining, fake bold, colorization, or what have you.  For me,
all such things merely distract from reading the content, which is what
I'm interested in.  (For me, this is the case for everything, not just
Info files.)

Philosophically, I think there is a consistency, simplicity, and
universality in making the defaults be "mode line in reverse video,
everything else untampered with" which is lacking with any other policy.

However, I recognize this is not a popular stance nowadays, , so I can
only encourage you to do whatever you think is best for most users.

Re the header line, I also have been annoyed by its spilling over to a
second line, wasting precious screen real estate.  However, hiding it
completely feels somehow problematic to me.  Maybe another option would
be to truncate it at the screen width.

Karl

P.S. IMHO, hide-note-references (and all similar things in Emacs that
effectively reformat the Info file) is a misfeature that shouldn't exist
at all.  Not that I expect that to happen.  Certainly I think hiding
should not be default.