From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: [RFC] Change visibility for bracket links Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:17:08 -0400 Message-ID: <87k2dgffvf.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87bmyyold3.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> <87fuo7bm5j.fsf@alphapapa.net> <11075f37-d56a-da83-dca7-f33b98001062@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43260) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btbOn-0007Fd-3o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:17:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btbOj-0007bB-MQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:17:49 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=55503 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1btbOj-0007Yy-F6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:17:45 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1btbOT-0001VW-Kg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:17:29 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Clément Pit--Claudel writes: > On 2016-10-07 22:38, Adam Porter wrote: >> I understand the motivation for making this change, but I respectfully >> request that this be made configurable. I much prefer the "clean" links >> without visible brackets, and adding them would seem like a regression >> to me. I'm guessing that many current Org users would also prefer to >> keep the brackets invisible. > > Adam, what do you think of my earlier suggestion (displaying the > brackets when the pointer is on them, hiding them otherwise? (In the > style of prettify-symbols-mode with unprettify-symbol-at-point) > I don't particularly care whether the brackets are shown or not, but I dislike things that change the visual appearance as you roll over them. The web is full of such things and they drive me bananas: you are trying to read something and you roll over something in the text that changes its appearance, possibly shifting the text that you are reading and leaving you to chase it around the page - good bye, concentration. Even if you do it by just switching visibility on the brackets, it's distracting when you are reading; it might be helpful when composing but I'm not convinced even for that. If this proposal is considered at all, *please* make it optional. My 2 cents. Thanks! -- Nick