Re: the splash buffer

Stephen J Turnbull writes: dv> I'm afraid you're right. Now, maybe we can avoid printing them all (there dv> are currently 5). [...] Maybe I'll ask RMS about this. Stephen> Another possibility would be to use the echo area as a marquee the Stephen> way VM does. I doubt it's satisfactory, but you could ask RMS (but Stephen> mentioning VM as the inspiration is probably not a good idea ;-) :-). I've thought about this a bit more, and look: suppose Joe User hacks its X11 resources and sets the default frame geometry to 10 lines. When starting XEmacs, almost all of the splash buffer, including copyrights, will be hidden. Is XEmacs becoming illegal, then? And is it different from not being able to display everything in a terminal? Stallmacs fails to display the copyrights in that case. I'm waiting for an answer from rms on this. Stephen> A variation on the theme would be to do a Java-ized Web-advert-style Stephen> "rotating text" using timers. What I have in mind is that the splash Stephen> buffer comes up with the full set of copyrights and help stuff Stephen> together, then rotates them en bloc every 5 seconds in the buffer. I've had this in mind for a long time too. Stephen> I wish I had time to implement, just to see if it looks good :-( Telepathic skills? ;-) Stephen> Heck, if it were cool enough, people might never deselect the splash Stephen> buffer :-) `(turn-on-permanent-buffer)' ;-) -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / E.N.S.T. INF C201.1 mailto:verna＠inf.enst.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 46 rue Barrault Tel. (33) 01 45 81 73 46 75634 Paris cedex 13 Fax. (33) 01 45 81 31 19