Re: bad UI defaults

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Of course, we could use something general such as :type 'sexp, but
> customizing the variable that way would require full knowledge of the
> data structure at the Lisp level.

I'd have thought that was necessary if you were going to customize it
to such an extent.

> That's no help for non-programmers.  To make it easy would require a
> :type designed for mode line elements and which makes it convenient
> to customize them.

I thought more in terms of moving around or deleting the standard set
of elements, but I haven't thought about how that might work well.