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RE: Key descriptions in *Help* are too wide


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Key descriptions in *Help* are too wide
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:27:17 -0700

    >         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!

That sounds OK too. Or provide a horizontal scroll bar. Users should have
some way of seeing all the values, without changing the width.

Before the release, can we at least truncate or fill, so the width problem
is fixed? Thx.






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