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25.1.50; `describe-categories'

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1.50; `describe-categories'
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:19:21 -0800 (PST)

The legend is split in two: succinct at the top, detailed at the bottom.

1. Consider combining these, and putting the result at the top.

2. If you don't want to do that, please at least consider making the
   text "(see the tail for the longer description)" be a link that takes
   you to the legend at the bottom.  This is mainly to make that text
   more noticeable.  I did not notice it at all, and discovered the
   legend at the bottom only by accident, after scrolling.



In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2015-12-04
Bzr revision: ffefb6e899fbcdcbd79cb34292d57b7bc3043fcc
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/snapshot/trunk --enable-checking=yes
 --enable-check-lisp-object-type --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-Og
 -ggdb3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib 'CPPFLAGS=-DGC_MCHECK=1
 -Ic:/Devel/emacs/include''

Message #8 received at 22227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 22227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22227: 25.1.50; `describe-categories'
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 21:29:09 +0200

> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:19:21 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> 
> The legend is split in two: succinct at the top, detailed at the bottom.
> 
> 1. Consider combining these, and putting the result at the top.

That'd be too long, IMO.

> 2. If you don't want to do that, please at least consider making the
>    text "(see the tail for the longer description)" be a link that takes
>    you to the legend at the bottom.

Can you propose a patch along these lines?

Thanks.

Message #11 received at 22227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#22227: 25.1.50; `describe-categories'
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:53:40 -0800 (PST)

> > 1. Consider combining these, and putting the result at the top.
> 
> That'd be too long, IMO.
> 
> > 2. If you don't want to do that, please at least consider making the
> >    text "(see the tail for the longer description)" be a link that 
> >    takes you to the legend at the bottom. This is mainly to make
> >    that text more noticeable.  I did not notice it at all, and
> >    discovered the legend at the bottom only by accident, after
> >    scrolling.
> 
> Can you propose a patch along these lines?  Thanks.

No, not now, at least - sorry.


(FWIW, wrt the emacs -Q reproducible crash for this help that I
reported, bug #22226, I cannot even do `M-x describe-categories'
with my setup without immediately getting the crash (no need to
go to eob and then scroll back up a bit).)

Message #14 received at 22227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 22227 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22227: 25.1.50; `describe-categories'
Date: Sun, 01 May 2016 00:45:54 +0200

Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> 2. If you don't want to do that, please at least consider making the
>    text "(see the tail for the longer description)" be a link that takes
>    you to the legend at the bottom.  This is mainly to make that text
>    more noticeable.  I did not notice it at all, and discovered the
>    legend at the bottom only by accident, after scrolling.

I've now done this on the trunk.

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