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RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:00:11 -0800 |
> And how do you know what custom group to look in? These are
> options that are not autoloaded (so unavailable to C-h v
> and apropos) and are not mentioned in any manual.
>
> One way is to browse through the structure of custom groups.
> But it would be good if Custom buffers had some menu bar item
> leading to customizing the custom group for custom buffers.
>
> Would someone please add that?
1. Reminder: The bug report was about the default order of options in a
custom buffer. If it were alphabetical, users could find options there
easier.
I don't see the utility of the current default order, which I mistook to be
more or less random.
The explanation I got was that this default order reflects the guideline to
"write options such that an option `bar' depending on an option `foo'
appears in the customization buffer after `foo' unless the user deliberately
changed that order." What is the reason for that guideline, and just what
kind of dependency are we talking about here? What makes the default order a
good one for users?
2. If the current default order is kept, is there a reason that the custom
sort options shouldn't be autoloaded, so that users can find out about them
through `C-h v' or `apropos'?
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, (continued)
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, martin rudalics, 2006/12/22
- RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Drew Adams, 2006/12/22
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, martin rudalics, 2006/12/22
- RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Drew Adams, 2006/12/22
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, martin rudalics, 2006/12/23
- RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Drew Adams, 2006/12/23
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, martin rudalics, 2006/12/23
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/23
- RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Drew Adams, 2006/12/23
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/24
- RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Jason Rumney, 2006/12/25
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/25
- RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Drew Adams, 2006/12/25
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/26
- Re: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Richard Stallman, 2006/12/23
- RE: customize options and faces are not in alphabetical order, Drew Adams, 2006/12/23