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Re: bad UI defaults
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: bad UI defaults |
Date: |
Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:14:03 -0400 |
> I would be glad to see a custom facility for customizing
> mode-line-format conveniently. All that it takes is defining
> a special custom-type that is convenient to use.
Could you be more specific? It doesn't seem so easy to me.
mode-line-format has a value made of a certain data structure built
out of Lisp objects. We could make a helpful defcustom for it
if we had a suitable value to use for :type.
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. 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.
Doing a good job of this would require some creativity. I agree
it is not trivial. However, at least the job to be done is clear cut.
Re: bad UI defaults, Dave Love, 2003/04/23
Re: bad UI defaults, Richard Stallman, 2003/04/18