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Subject: Planned interface tweaks for beta6/beta33
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From: Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com>
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I'm planning two interface tweaks for the next betas.  The first
involves the display of help.  When you're running an XEmacs full
screen height, when help is selected the frame is split in half and
very frequently you end up with a few lines of text and a lot of
blanks lines.  Sudish Joseph made the suggestion that this might be
optimized by calling shrink-window-if-larger-than-buffer on the *Help*
output window.  I've made this change to with-displaying-help-buffer,
lisp-complete-symbol and apropos-print, and so far I like it.  It
definitely makes the display look neater.

The second change shouldn't have much an impact at all.  Currently the
initial splash screen disappears either after a certain amount time or
the first keypress.  I cannot think of any reason why there should be
a timeout on this, particularly since we have no current way to get
that screen back.  I plan on eliminating the timeout so that the
splash screen stays up until the first keypress.  I would also like to
add an option to the help menu to bring the splash screen into a
buffer.

Comments?
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