Re: emacs mode line suggestions

[Richard Riley]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> current behaviour is clearly confusing and suboptimal.
>> Maybe buffers lack a :user or a :system flag that would be set
>> automatically or by the producer,...
>> 
>> The effort could be joined with the one mentionned on emacs devel few
>> months ago to give emacs enought facilities to propose "workspaces"....
>>
>> We can imagine...
>> 
>> ... is a terrible default usability choice
>
> C'mon guys. This is help-gnu-emacs. It's for getting help about using
> Emacs.

But it should not be too disturbing to gauge Emacs user's views on
certain issues. The nature of a Help group often means there are more
new users and new users are often a catalyst for new and good ideas. Any
half decent news reader features thread kill and keeping most in one or
two threads is not disrupting. In addition discussion threads on
functionality are often educational - many such threads have taught me
new things about how and why things are in Emacs.