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Re: bad UI defaults
From: |
Dave Love |
Subject: |
Re: bad UI defaults |
Date: |
Tue, 09 Sep 2003 17:05:55 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I think it should be possible to customize this aspect of Emacs
> behavior with Custom, but customizing an alist is an inconvenient
> interface for beginners. Perhaps there could be a special custom type
> that provides a simple way to customize what blinking looks in the
> current setup, without showing the complexity of the alist. That
> would be simple to use.
I don't see how so, given that you just have pairs of values to
specify. It just needs suitable :tags and types for the alist
elements, doesn't it? The doc for `blink-cursor-alist' doesn't say
what the possible values are, so I couldn't add types.
> The same approach could be useful for other alists that beginners
> might want to customize. So perhaps this new custom type could
> be a general feature for an alternative way to specify how to
> customize an alist.
How do you expect an interface to look? If `alist' is a confusing
term, perhaps an explanation can be hyperlinked in the help buffer
(perhaps automagically for variable doc strings starting `Alist ...').
Won't users generally understand the concept of using the RHS of a
pair when the LHS matches the current state?
- Re: bad UI defaults, (continued)
- Re: bad UI defaults, Dave Love, 2003/09/02
- Re: bad UI defaults, Dave Love, 2003/09/02
- Re: bad UI defaults, Gerd Moellmann, 2003/09/02
- Re: bad UI defaults, Kim F. Storm, 2003/09/03
- Re: bad UI defaults, Gerd Moellmann, 2003/09/03
- Re: bad UI defaults, Dave Love, 2003/09/04
- Re: bad UI defaults, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/04
- Re: bad UI defaults,
Dave Love <=
- Re: bad UI defaults, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/09/09
- Re: bad UI defaults, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/09/09
- Re: bad UI defaults, Miles Bader, 2003/09/09
- Re: bad UI defaults, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/09/12
- Re: bad UI defaults, Stefan Monnier, 2003/09/12
- Re: bad UI defaults, Miles Bader, 2003/09/12
- Re: bad UI defaults, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/16
- Re: bad UI defaults, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/09/17
- Re: bad UI defaults, Richard Stallman, 2003/09/18
- Re: bad UI defaults, Per Abrahamsen, 2003/09/18