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Re: Key descriptions in *Help* are too wide


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: Key descriptions in *Help* are too wide
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:19:27 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

>         I want to see all the bindings. I just don't want a
>         super-long line. (Plus,
>         we don't have a horizontal scroll bar.)
>
>     If you want to see all the bindings, filling would be the ideal
>     solution.
>     But why do you want to see them all?
>     It surprises me, the idea that showing them all is actually useful.
>
> I don't really care strongly to see all the bindings. But how to know which
> bindings are the most important to display? Presumably, if there are
> bindings to show, they should be shown.
>
> Again, I don't really care about this part - the main thing I'm requesting
> is not to use long lines. Whether the info is truncated or it is all shown
> is another question, for which I have only a slight preference that the info
> be displayed.

We could do the same as the print of long Lisp values ... showing only some 
bindings
followed by ... -- and make it clickable with the mouse to show the whole thing.
But after the release!

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk





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