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Re: C-h r and Images
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: C-h r and Images |
Date: |
Mon, 02 Sep 2013 22:37:52 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> My motivation for the post was the thread in help list and a recurrent
>> confusion between a frame and a window.
>>
>> It is easier to show
>> - a window
>> - a frame
>> - a minibuffer
>> - a header line
>> - a mode line
>>
>> with a single shot rather than explain it in Glossary.
>
> Great idea. (Not either/or, of course.)
Something like http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DrewsEmacsWindowCallouts
but in a plain vanilla `emacs -Q' rather than Drewmacs :-)
>> Btw, looking at Glossary for Window, I am surprised that I don't know
>> what (q.v.) stands for. The Emacs crowd *was* scholarly and academic
>> and it is to some extent even so today. But using things like q.v. etc
>> and assuming that it will be understood by *lay* crowd is a bit too much
>> for the asking...
>
> Yes, it's silly, if not downright pretentious in this context.
Which is also easy to confuse with "quo vadis" :-)
> What's more, it would be helpful to hyperlink directly to an explanation
> of the term in question, rather than just saying "which see" or some such
> English alternative to "q.v."
Linking directly to an explanation is possible with Info "anchors".
- Re: C-h r and Images, (continued)
- Re: C-h r and Images, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/02
- RE: C-h r and Images, Drew Adams, 2013/09/02
- Re: C-h r and Images, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/02
- RE: C-h r and Images, Drew Adams, 2013/09/02
- Re: C-h r and Images, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/02
- RE: C-h r and Images, Drew Adams, 2013/09/02
- Re: C-h r and Images, Jambunathan K, 2013/09/02
- Re: C-h r and Images, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/02
- Re: C-h r and Images, Jambunathan K, 2013/09/02
- RE: C-h r and Images, Drew Adams, 2013/09/02
- Re: C-h r and Images,
Juri Linkov <=
- RE: C-h r and Images, Drew Adams, 2013/09/02
- Re: C-h r and Images, Kanthimathi R, 2013/09/02
- Re: C-h r and Images, Xue Fuqiao, 2013/09/03
- RE: C-h r and Images, Drew Adams, 2013/09/03
- Re: C-h r and Images, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/03
- RE: C-h r and Images, Drew Adams, 2013/09/03
- Re: C-h r and Images, Juri Linkov, 2013/09/03
- Re: C-h r and Images, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/09/04
- Re: C-h r and Images, Xue Fuqiao, 2013/09/04
- Re: C-h r and Images, Xue Fuqiao, 2013/09/04