Re: help exit

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Hans-Bernhard Br=F6ker wrote:
> Daniel J Sebald wrote:
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>> Speaking of "help", attached is a short patch for displaying the topic=
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>> at the very beginning of help, e.g.,
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>> gnuplot> help gnuplot
>> TOPIC: gnuplot-defined variables
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> Good idea.  But let me point out a detail: at least for gih help,
> some of the node already *have* such a display: it's shown after you=20
> come out of the pager, and it asks you about a choice of sub-node.

Oh yeah.  Some things to worry about there.

> It may not be a major issue if the title is displayed twice, but it may=
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> be a better idea to print it always at the same place (which would thus=
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> have to be at the end).

Eh, displaying multiple times isn't professional looking.  In some way, w=
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think of the topic as a "header".  As you point out, we really don't want=
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print it as part of the help text.  Rather, what would be nice, if possib=
le, is=20
if the pager had it's own kind of header, e.g., at the top of the termina=
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the header in bold while the text scrolls underneath it.  Is that possibl=
e?

Dan