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RE: fancy splash screen
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: fancy splash screen |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:43:26 -0700 |
> > "Emacs" in "About Emacs" is not redundant in any way.
> > If you have multiple buffers, there is nothing that
> > implies that one named only "About" has help about Emacs.
>
> Most applications I know have exactly one "About" menu,
> and Emacs does not seem to be different in that respect.
>
> It's not about the menu; it's about the buffer name. There are lots
> of buffers whose content is "about" something, and some Emacs
> libraries might use that term in buffer names, for various
> purposes. You might have buffers "*About Foo Bar*" and "*About
> Toto*".
But we don't have any such buffers. This seems academical.
"We" who? Users may use such buffers. Other libraries may use such buffers.
> The buffer about Emacs should be called "*About Emacs*" (possibly
> with "GNU"). A buffer name of just "*About*" does not clearly
> indicate what it is.
As I said: having a single "About" item is common for applications.
As I said, it's not about the menu-item name, or the number of menu items
per application, or the number of applications; it's about the buffer name.
Since the menu entry is called "About Emacs", calling the buffer
"*About Emacs*" seems a suitable choice.
So we agree.
I don't find your arguments
for that name persuasive at all, but since I am fine with that choice,
it seems useless to haggle over just _why_.
Good.
> Similarly, I don't see it mentioned in the Emacs manual. Shouldn't
> it be mentioned along with the use of space as first character for
> internal buffers (e.g. in node Select Buffer)? Node Buffers is
> perhaps a good place to mention use of both `*' and initial space in
> buffer names. That node gives examples of `*' buffers, without ever
> pointing out that they are buffers that are not normally visiting
> files.
It is basically only a convention, but it might be worth mentioning
there or somewhere else.
It should be mentioned in the conventions section of the Elisp manual, if it
is a convention that we would like programmers to use.
If it is useful for users to understand this naming convention (and it must
be; otherwise, why use it for user-visible names?), then it should also be
pointed out in the Emacs manual.
- fancy splash screen, martin rudalics, 2006/09/14
- Re: fancy splash screen, Chong Yidong, 2006/09/14
- Re: fancy splash screen, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/14
- Re: fancy splash screen, martin rudalics, 2006/09/15
- Re: fancy splash screen, Romain Francoise, 2006/09/15
- Re: fancy splash screen, David Kastrup, 2006/09/15
- RE: fancy splash screen, Drew Adams, 2006/09/15
- Re: fancy splash screen, David Kastrup, 2006/09/15
- RE: fancy splash screen, Drew Adams, 2006/09/15
- Re: fancy splash screen, David Kastrup, 2006/09/15
- RE: fancy splash screen,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: fancy splash screen, martin rudalics, 2006/09/15
- Re: fancy splash screen, David Kastrup, 2006/09/15
- Re: fancy splash screen, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/16
- Re: fancy splash screen, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/15
- Re: fancy splash screen, Richard Stallman, 2006/09/15
- Re: fancy splash screen, martin rudalics, 2006/09/16