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Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmat
From: |
Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation |
Date: |
Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:48:13 +0000 (UTC) |
A better user interface for the `Customize' feature would show the
current value of a variable or face, the previous and yet earlier
values when applicable, and the value in the distribution. The value
should not only be listed, but in the case of faces, shown as samples,
as is done now.
Current Previous Yet earlier Distribution
value value value default
value
(in (from (from
init earlier an even
file) init earlier
file) init
file)
Thus, for Mark Ring Max, the buffer among other features might show:
Current Previous Yet earlier Distribution
value value value default
32 24 20 16
(The `previous' and `yet earlier' entries should be blank when you
have not made previous initializations or customizations. In this
instance the `current value' is the same as the `distribution default
value'.)
Since the Customization buffer only provides customization for some
objects, namely variables and faces, and does not even write defuns
automatically, it should be renamed the `Partial Customization
buffer'.
This way, no one would suggest that `Customize All' in a partial
customization buffer should mean `Customize only those items that are
set in this buffer; do not Customize All'. In particular, novices
mislearn when they come to think that a feature's range is different
than it really is.
Even when a partial customization buffer shows only variables and
faces, no hooks, defuns or keymappings, it would help both novices and
experts to show history -- that is to show the current value in one's
.emacs or other initialization file, previous values from init file
back ups, and the default or standard distribution value (which you
get from `emacs -Q'),
--
Robert J. Chassell
address@hidden GnuPG Key ID: 004B4AC8
http://www.rattlesnake.com http://www.teak.cc
- Re: Customize buttons that changeuser'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation, (continued)
- RE: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Drew Adams, 2005/02/13
- RE: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Drew Adams, 2005/02/13
- Re: Customize buttons that change user'scustomfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/02/13
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/02/12
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/02/12
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/02/12
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/12
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Lennart Borgman, 2005/02/12
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation,
Robert J. Chassell <=
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Kim F. Storm, 2005/02/12
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom fileshouldaskforconfirmation, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/07
- RE: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Drew Adams, 2005/02/08
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom fileshouldaskforconfirmation, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/15
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom fileshouldaskforconfirmation, Lennart Borgman, 2005/02/15
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom fileshouldaskforconfirmation, Richard Stallman, 2005/02/16
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom fileshouldaskforconfirmation, Lennart Borgman, 2005/02/16
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's custom fileshouldaskforconfirmation, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/02/16
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Lennart Borgman, 2005/02/16
- Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation, Luc Teirlinck, 2005/02/16