Re: Fiddling with the menus

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:27 AM, Stefan Monnier<address@hidden> wrote:
>>> >> 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.
>
> Obviously asking via repeated prompts would be annoying.  But maybe
> showing the list of options modified in a buffer where you can then
> click "save" either for all of them, or for each individual one would
> seem to make it sufficiently non-painful and a lot more clear.

Maybe give the user a choice between customize-customized and
customize-save-customized?

(And the latter should check if there is something to save which it
does not do now.)