Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:56:06 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 05:53:25 +0200
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: Xah Lee <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> >>
> >> The "Save options" is in my opinion confusing.
> >
> > I don't see how it can be.  Many other GUI programs have a similar
> > feature, and I didn't find it confusing at all.
> 
> They do? It does not at all seem common to me, but maybe I have just
> missed it. I just looked in Firefox and OpenOffice.org and I can't see
> anything similar.

Try harder.

> >> I think it would be better to ask for each option if it would be set
> >> permanently or just temporarily.
> >
> > That'd be a major annoyance, I think.
> 
> Exactly why?

Because I don't like to be annoyed with interactive prompts too much,
they get in the way of fast typing.

> Are you misunderstanding what I suggested?

No, I understand you very well.