From: Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org>
Subject: Re: asterisks disappear
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 08:14:35 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9yllddqmjo.fsf@jpl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vfchcmrj.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp>
>>>>> In <87vfchcmrj.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> Miles Bader wrote:
> Katsumi Yamaoka <yamaoka@jpl.org> writes:
>> I raised the problem on which Gnus users may
>> misunderstand buffer names, e.g., "*Messages*", "*scratch*", etc.
> Yes, I fully understand this. Reading messages about Emacs with missing
> asterisks is annoying -- but that represents only something like 1% of
> the messages I read.
I have many opportunities to write buffer names in gnu.emacs.gnus
and so forth. In the latest example, the buffer name "*trace of
SMTP session to XXX*" might not have been understood correctly by
a recipient.
> An easy-to-use per-group customization that would cause _only_ asterisks
> to be retained might be a good thing (underlines are both more common,
> and more adversely affected by the "retaining" behavior). You might
> even try to have this default to "true" on common Emacs-related
> newsgroups.
It is not my problem. People who began to use Emacs and Gnus
will not know it. In case I reply to their question, I might be
unable to tell buffer names correctly. For instance, "Haven't
any warning messages remained in the *Messages* buffer?".
Therefore, I think it is better to display at least asterisks by
default. I will probably make them invisible, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-07 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-05 10:26 Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-05 10:53 ` Reiner Steib
2004-11-05 12:03 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-05 12:16 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-05 13:00 ` Daniel Pittman
2004-11-07 10:58 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-07 14:12 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-07 22:33 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-07 23:14 ` Katsumi Yamaoka [this message]
2004-11-08 11:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-11-08 11:44 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-08 12:39 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-08 15:06 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-08 22:56 ` Miles Bader
2004-11-09 0:16 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-10 13:12 ` Romain Francoise
2004-11-10 23:23 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-11 14:14 ` Reiner Steib
2004-11-11 15:03 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2004-11-09 17:10 ` Jesper Harder
2004-11-08 15:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
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