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RE: Value menu value should be listed on a separate line


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: Value menu value should be listed on a separate line
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:31:24 -0800

>  >> > When a value menu is present, the current value should be on a
>  >> > separate line from the Value Menu button. Currently, the
> current value
>  >> > is listed next to the Value Menu button, which makes the Customize
>  >> > buffer far too wide.
>  >>
>  >>The author of an option is responsible for its appearance.
>  >
>  >
>  > Uh, how is the author supposed to start a value that has a tag
>  > on a separate line?
>
> Usually with ":entry-format" and ":format".

No special formatting should be necessary, just to be able to use a simple
tag. I don't believe that was why :*format were introduced.

>  > Writers of defcustom's shouldn't need to concern themselves
>  > with the layout
>  > of the Customize buffer, anyway. They should be able to define
>  > a :tag string
>  > without the preoccupation of its starting position and the number of
>  > characters already taken up by the option name and the button widths.
>
> I'm convinced that writers of defcustoms should care about the layout.

OK, you're convinced. I said that they should not *need* to concern
themselves with the layout of stuff, beyond their own creations. This is a
flaw in the basic layout, which should not be shoved off onto the definers
of individual values, to work around. It should be trivial to fix, no less -
why not fix the general case, instead of making writers of each value work
around it over and over?





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