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| author | Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> | 2009-01-02 19:19:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> | 2009-01-02 19:19:03 +0000 |
| commit | aedac0f01947ce8fa35cbec0eea214cdc457637f (patch) | |
| tree | 3a9c7a0252769406fb0d62a7cabd3b963ff67575 | |
| parent | 89e2438a03ab48a61e3f73be498a28436d528899 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-aedac0f01947ce8fa35cbec0eea214cdc457637f.tar.gz | |
(Scan Line Formats): Indicate that first column should be kept empty.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/misc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/misc/mh-e.texi | 14 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/misc/ChangeLog b/doc/misc/ChangeLog index f45407ff790..d91fb71ecaa 100644 --- a/doc/misc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/misc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-01-03 Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> + + * mh-e.texi (Scan Line Formats): Indicate that first column should be + kept empty. + 2008-12-20 Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> * org.texi (Activation, Exporting, ASCII export, HTML export) diff --git a/doc/misc/mh-e.texi b/doc/misc/mh-e.texi index 2970f7dbcb5..8e70673eb9d 100644 --- a/doc/misc/mh-e.texi +++ b/doc/misc/mh-e.texi @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ @c Edition of the manual. It is either empty for the first edition or @c has the form ", nth Edition" (without the quotes). @set EDITION -@set UPDATED 2008-08-18 -@set UPDATE-MONTH August, 2008 +@set UPDATED 2009-01-02 +@set UPDATE-MONTH January, 2009 @c Other variables. @set MH-BOOK-HOME http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ This is version @value{VERSION}@value{EDITION} of @cite{The MH-E Manual}, last updated @value{UPDATED}. -Copyright @copyright{} 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 +Copyright @copyright{} 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c This dual license has been agreed upon by the FSF. @@ -8040,9 +8040,11 @@ Program used to scan messages (default: @code{"scan"}). There are a couple of caveats when creating your own scan format file. First, MH-E will not work if your scan lines do not include message numbers. It will work poorly if you don't dedicate a column for -showing the current message and notations. You won't be able to use -the option @code{mh-adaptive-cmd-note-flag} or the threading features -(@pxref{Threading}). +showing the current message and notations. It is also best to keep the +first column empty so that text isn't obscured by the current +message's overlay arrow when running in a terminal. You won't be able +to use the option @code{mh-adaptive-cmd-note-flag} or the threading +features (@pxref{Threading}). @cindex message numbers @findex mh-set-cmd-note |