Re: a new user

Tuesday, 27 October 1998

        Sam Steingold <sds(a)goems.com&gt; writes:

...
  >> They are identical because all of the warnings you get are
being
  >> shown.  *Warnings* buffer is an internal buffer with all the
  >> warnings.  If you set `display-warning-minimum-level' to
  >> something like `emergency', the -show buffer will disappear, and
  >> the *Warnings* buffer will continue existing in the background.

 then the `*Warnings*' buffer should be ` *Warnings*', right? 
Right.  Will fix.

...
  >> > sure - but why two parallel facilities?
  >> 
  >> Because there are people who still prefer doing things "the old
  >> way" (not to mention that `M-x apropos' is faster than the hyper
  >> version), and who would (rightfully) bitch and moan if we were
  >> to remove the old facility.  We've been bitten by such things in
  >> the past, and it's best to have a conservative approach.

 getting 2 parallel facilities depending on the keystroke used to
 invoke help is very confusing for new users. 
I thought `C-h a' invoked hyper-stuff, and you had to use `M-x
apropos' to get the old one.  Isn't that the case?

...
 all help/apropos in Emacs is hypertext now, it is "backwards
 compatible" in the sense that the buffers look just like they did in
 e19, but some places are mouse-clickable, and I see no slowdown
 (well, no slowdown which could not be blamed on MULE :-).  I am not
 trying to tell you that Emacs is better than XEmacs, just that IMO
 this particular feature is implemented there better. 
I haven't seen what FSF Emacs does with the help buffers.  Last time I 
checked, `M-x apropos' was quite clickable in XEmacs.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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